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Helen Blyth Coursework A Evacuation Evacuation began on the 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Enormous amounts of people were evacuated in just one weekend! They were moved from big cities, ports, industrial areas villages and towns that were near to airfields, to the countryside like Scotland, though some families would make their own arrangements and stay with friends or family, and some even went abroad, places like Canada and Australia (that was if they were quite rich!) The government had seen the power of the Luftwaffe in Spain; the Air Ministry had calculated that just in the first twenty-four hours of the war, the Germans could drop at least three thousand, five hundred tonnes of bombs, so if the government didn't get the families around the cities, ports, industrial areas etc, then everything and nearly everyone would be destroyed and the government couldn't let that happen because they...

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