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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain’s major cities in the early years of World War 2?
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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of World War 2? Evacuation was the mass departure of people from danger zones e.g. London, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Kent and many more in and operation named Pied Piper nick named so because of the tale of the pied piper leading all the children away. The evacuee's, the people being removed form potential harm, were children, expectant mothers and old and ill people, the people who would not be able to fend for themselves. The British Government would want these people evacuated as soon as possible to reduce the number of fatalities likely to occur, thus keeping the moral and work standard of the civilians involved in the war effort high. The Government realized after WW1 that women were an invaluable source in wartime; they also knew that they had to save the children...
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