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Why did the British government decide to evacuate children from Britain’s major cities at the start of the Second World War
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Why did the British government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities at the start of the Second World War? The whole aim of the policy of evacuation was that the government thought that it would be safer for children, pregnant women, disabled people, teachers and mothers with young children as they were scared for when the German bombing raids began and they wanted to preserve the next generation. The fact is that they were children and they didn't want them to suffer. The evacuation was first introduced near the end of 1939 as they introduced it the day before Hitler invaded Poland. They mainly went to the countryside, as this was where it was considered safe for the evacuees. The amount of evacuees that were evacuated from the major British cities were 47% of schoolchildren and about the third of mothers went to designated areas, which is 827,000 schoolchildren, 524,000...
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