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Question A: Why Did The British Government Decide To Evacuate Children In The Early Years Of The Second World War?
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Question A: Why Did The British Government Decide To Evacuate Children In The Early Years Of The Second World War? The British government led by Neville Chamberlain arranged for the evacuation of children from major cities mainly due to the exaggerated claims by the IDC and the RAF on the impact of the German airforce, the Luftwaffe. WW1 had been the first war in which civilians had died; with only 103 air raids, there had been over 1400 deaths and 4000 casualties. This number was nothing compared to the number of men who had died in the trenches, but the knowledge that civilian deaths were likely to be far greater in this war meant the government had to act. The bombing in WW1 had scared people, but more recently people had seen clips in the cinema of the bombing in Guernica. The images of dead women and children were particularly shocking,...
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