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Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during WW2
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Explain the differing reactions of people in Britain to the policy of evacuating children during WW2 When evacuation was introduced in the Second World War, to reduce the deaths of children and valued members of society, there were numerous varying reactions towards it from many different people, from parents to hosts to evacuees. This was due to moving the children yet also the major culture clashes which happened when the maybe lower class children met the middle class countryside residents. Children from the inner parts of major cities were not well off and did not encounter many things which the country-siders were familiar with. This was a particular difference in the category of hygiene and health. The young evacuated children would have probably had awful hygienic habits which some of the elder couples in the countryside disliked greatly. One host said, "They are all filthy. The smell of the room is...
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