As well as being useful, our possessions represent our extended selves. They provide a sense of past and tell us “who we are, where we have come from and perhaps where we are going”, says Russell Belk, who studies consumerism at York University in Toronto, Canada
I think the answer is after because heyday means a period of success or popularity
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Night by Ellie is a very good book to show historical events about Nazi Germany and how they treated territories that were occupied under Hitler. It does depict how life and living styles was like in Nazi controlled territories. That is my best shot at answering this, hope ur satisfied ;)