Ruin and RenewalExcellent much to ponder Financial Times In 1945, Europe lay in ruins its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the wake of the physical devastation came profound moral questions: how could Europe once proudly confident of its place at the heart of the 'civilised world' have done this to itself? And what did it mean that it had? In the years that followed, Europeans from