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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? In this essay I will be studying why the British government decided to evacuate the children out of Britain's major towns and cities. In 1932 there was a Spanish civil war, this acted as a test for the German Luftwaffe, the German air force (Luftwaffe) got involved and showed the Spanish what they could do and by this I mean they bombed Guernica. This acted as a warning to the British government. After the government had seen what the Luftwaffe could do they decided in august 1939 to evacuate children to the countryside. In august 1939 the first evacuation was announced. Many parent where reluctant to let their children go but they accepted that they would be safer. In the first three days of September an estimated three thousand...
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