1940 Britain: Life in the Blitz

[@Younghead]

People today don't realise how lucky they are to be walking around in a rebuilt Britain. I'm definitely extremely grateful for what many have fought and died for............... R.I.P. to Jim World War 2 Scottish Soldier and Thank You Dorothy ROYAL NAVY WREN....

[@dzav2282]

Thank god for Britain

[@MichaelBosley]

That family at the end could only be British. Talking about the weather when they haven’t seen each other for ages. “Don’t worry son, when I’m back home you’ll receive a firm handshake and a piece of hard liquorice.”

[@Thebeardofwisdom]

Remember 01:23 the next time you see a BBC period drama set in London in 1940

[@slatskatya]

But they will replace everything with IA to change real history and make up their stupid lies to fit the narrative... remember 1984 book

[@Lion_Heart_Zimbabwe]

As a Zimbabwean/Rhodesian of British stock, I salute and honour the lion-hearted, kind and good British people 🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻💯💯. They really were the greatest generation. To go through this hell and still find time to be cheerful, have fun and make the most of life. They were grateful for the little they had while fighting off Hitler's Luffwaffe. Makes me fiercely proud of my British heritage. God bless the British people. God bless the British Lion. God bless Britain. 🦁🦁 🇿🇼🤝🏻🇬🇧 🦁🦁 🇿🇼🍻🇬🇧

[@mortara79]

Despite the pain, their life was normal, as if they were used to it.

[@fenrichlee2867]

Ah well, no it was not 'normal' at all, this was hell - on earth.

[@atomictraveller]

those are british faces. a stiff upper lip. recognise it.

[@XmarkedSpot]

Greetings from Germany! ...too soon?

[@daniellamcgee4251]

😂😅 No, not too soon! I say this and my grandfather was there in the London Bliz, as a member of the Home Guard. Germany learnt its lessons, and educated generations of their young against propaganda. It seems that the majority of you are immune. Germany may need to save the rest of us from fascist authoritarian dictatorships, because that is the way the world is going.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

And who said Germans don't have a sense of humour?

[@JJONNYREPP]

1940 Britain: Life in the Blitz 0213am 14.11.24 yes, far too soon.... give a thousand years we might have gotten used to it. glad mrs higgins is gettin' some kip, though.

[@victoru6386]

Eh, your a différent German. You good

[@JJONNYREPP]

@@victoru6386 I'm so different i aint german.

[@martin096]

Not many native British walking through the streets of London anymore, I hardly recognise the place now. It is treated like a dump by foreigners and gang members. Those poor people sacrificed themselves for that.

[@onlypendants]

They wouldn't have come to the UK had the UK not invaded them in the 1st place. 😒

[@mohammadfaizal8461]

and we still haven't learnt from all this suffering have we?

[@mmx4gaming12]

Kind if looks like liverpool nowadays

[@daniellamcgee4251]

I wasn't aware of air warfare and bombing over Liverpool. I assume you are making a false equivalency to make a point.

[@mmx4gaming12]

@daniellamcgee4251 you see buddy much like the aircraft in the blitz I'ma assume you've never been to Liverpool thus this joke flew right over your head.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

@@mmx4gaming12 No, I haven't been to Liverpool, but I had a grandfather who was in the Home Guard based in London during the London Blitz. I feel that whatever Liverpool looks like, it couldn't be anywhere equivalent to the air raid damage during the war. It kind of minimises the War experience, which is why I don't think I would find your joke funny, even if I did visit Liverpool. But humour is subjective, and clearly other people liked your joke. Presumably those of more distant generations from the Blitz than me.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

@@mmx4gaming12 Good aircraft pun, though. 👍

[@vincekerrigan8300]

daniella. Ye Gods! What is it with you people, pontificating profoundly on something of which you are so woefully ignorant. Of course Liverpool was bombed in the war - it wasn't only London, cities all over the country were attacked. People like myself, who actually lived through the Blitz and all the later bombing - there was a second Blitz - and the V weapons which followed, get sick and tired of being told, in multiple columns like these, what it was like and what we did or didn't experience, by people who haven't the faintest conception of what living in wartime is like.

[@DJLSWFC]

When the British and the Government had a backbone.

[@steventhepig3173]

Hmm , Wow

[@atomictraveller]

fr

[@eddiecriglington400]

🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧

[@onlypendants]

O how human beings enjoy inflicting pain on one another & on countless innocent animals under various excuses. To think we've progressed over the millenia...we sure have. Our weapons can now cause much more pain & destruction than they used to & we are not going to learn our lessons anytime soon.

[@atomictraveller]

hi kids, don't tell me what you think about churchill because I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

[@jovamalesevic5184]

Morte England, Viva Rusia

[@ziadsaaedalialimohamed9247]

Peace no war

[@liverpool4ever552]

Sadly, that was a clash between two Great Nations for all the wrong reasons !

[@Abbale]

Churchills artillery

[@josephastrudpineda2515]

🇬🇧

[@earthlingcarl3179]

London was probably still safer back then when it wasn't Diverse.

[@Me-oy5he]

Choosing to use the word ‘probably’ says that you have no idea, but still want to be deliberately provocative and divisive whilst showing how lazy you are with research.

[@earthlingcarl3179]

@@Me-oy5he calm down love

[@vincekerrigan8300]

Me-oy. Earthling was dead right. At least we knew who the enemy was in those days.

[@philrod1]

​@@earthlingcarl3179 - How did you come up with that?

[@daniellamcgee4251]

If it wasn't for the 'diverse' populations and their contribution to the war effort, you probably wouldn't exist, or would be German.

[@-DC-]

Ahhhh Border Defence, So it wasn't just an Urban Myth.

[@tonyarichards5430]

So many pissed off racists in the comments. Hate is exhausting, isn’t it? I find your pain hilarious.

[@Sullivan-z9z]

But the Black community had it far worse during the blitz - don't you watch BBC?

[@bobcosmic]

Where I now live was bombed to smithereens by the Germans, should I thank the Austrian painter or do I thank Winston Churchill for declaring war on the Third Reich?

[@mmx4gaming12]

I think you'll find that Winston had no choice there my guy, so maybe you should be glad that Churchill decided to stand up to the bullies of the Nazi party

[@Vingul]

@@mmx4gaming12 Tired cliché of an excuse for the evil Churchill did.

[@jtlampsu2]

@@Vingul and Adolph didn't do anything evil, either?!

[@gerardwall5847]

@@VingulChurchill was not the prime minister at the outbreak of war as a matter of fact he was not even in the government .

[@Vingul]

@@jtlampsu2 At least he didn’t want war with Britain or any other Western European country. Even the British wanted Poland to give Danzig back to the Germans, but then made a foolish deal with Poland and went to war against Germany over it. Churchill could have turned things around instead of igniting a world war, but chose not to.

[@2_diner_musafir]

Not feeling bad from seeing former british colony India, nefarious churchil made an artificial famine in India 1943.

[@communismisadisease4498]

Womp womp. Not like it affected the population.

[@Lion_Heart_Zimbabwe]

Mate, we are ONE HUMAN FAMILY! The British people are some of the kindest, most compassionate and generous people around. Just like your own people. Stop blaming all Brits just because of Churchill and the Raj. The East India Company is NO MORE! Churchill is DEAD! The Raj is GONE! The British Empire is in the past. Long dead. Stop living in blame and victim mentality. Forgive and move on. Speaking as a Zimbabwean of British stock myself, I am proud to be British!

[@atomictraveller]

he stopped the nazis mfr