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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. The reactions to the policy of evacuating children differed between three main groups of people. These groups were the children, the parents of the children and the foster parents. For some children it was a wonderful experience, but for others, unfortunately it was a living nightmare. Some of the positive reactions for the children were that most evacuees got on well with their foster parents; they loved the countryside, and made friends for life. More of the positive reactions of the children were that it was a wonderful experience foe them and that they were away from the smelly, dirty city. They were now in the clean countryside. "It was entirely different to see green hills, cows, sheep instead of the grimy bricks" Before the war the evacuees would have lived in dirty back-to-back houses, which...
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