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Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during the Second World War?
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Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during the Second World War? During the beginning of the Second World War the government thought it would be a good idea to move children away from the towns and cities. So they decided to put evacuation into effect. Evacuation is moving people from hazardous areas, such as big cities and industrial areas, to safer places like the countryside. Mainly children were evacuated, over eight hundred and twenty seven thousand children. The first time evacuation was announced was on the thirty first of August 1939, and started on the first of September. The amount of mothers and small children or babies evacuated was five hundred and twenty seven thousand. The government decided to evacuate the children for their own protection, also men thought the battle field was no place for them. The policy of evacuating children provoked...
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