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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of the Second World War?
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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of the Second World War? Indeed in Britain at the start of the war, the British government expected that here would be heavy raids on the big cities. Between the 1 and 3 September 1939 over 1.5 children, pregnant women and disabled people were evacuated to rural areas in mainland Britain. In Northern Ireland the government had made three attempts to evacuate people from Belfast. Unfortunately such was the complacency and strong belief that Northern Ireland would not be bombed, very few people availed themselves of the opportunities open to them. Three days before the big raid on Easter Tuesday, only 3,000 adults had registered to evacuate. The British Government feared the threat of German bombing in the cities and this made them decided to evacuate all children from the cities to the countryside....
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