Britain in the 1940s

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@brendadickson1755 3 ай бұрын

I was born in the Blitz dad was in the army mother had a 4 year old boy as well, I believe that’s what turned her into an alcoholic we were evacuated to a big farmhouse in Wales when I was 2, can’t remember it, when 1946 came dad came into my bedroom and said your mother has left and I don’t want her name mention again with that no hugs he just walked out, I was 5and half years old, he married the widow who had the farm she did not like me or my brother,got him in the army and dad put me on a train at 15 and told me to get of at Truro where a man would be waiting I had no talks about what a girl would go through, the man met me and asked if I was Brenda I said yes he sat down in shock because I looked so young, went in his car to the ferry to St Mawes Cornwall his wife was shocked they had no kids but ran a small hotel, three years they we’re lovely at 18 they advised me to train as a nurse, which I did I’m 84 now became a R nurse at 21 they were so proud of me, never saw my father or wife since I left,I became a nursing sister for 45 yrs,married had two children boy and girl, my husband died this January and my daughter in July 2024, this as brought al the memories back, thank you for bringing 1940 to you tube 👵🇬🇧

@aliceberry9392 3 ай бұрын

Wow! What a life. So sorry you went through that as a child. Glad you came through it okay.

@MrDaiseymay 2 ай бұрын

MANY CHILDREN DIDN'T WANT TO RETURN HOME TO THEIR PARENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'S SPENT THEIR TIME WITH DECENT MATURE COUPLES IN NICE COUNTRY HOUSES. IT MUST HAVE BEEN HELL FOR ALL INVOLVED.

@Sandy-bh6qm 16 күн бұрын

From America the British showed what they were made of during WW2 I admired them but now in London you can’t say merry Christmas “ This was the invasion you should have stopped

@loiseilers5058 15 күн бұрын

@@Sandy-bh6qmThe British people say “Happy Christmas” not Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas is American. The British have always said, “Happy Christmas .” There are a lot of differences in the vernacular between British England and American English and also in their customs.

@Sandy-bh6qm 15 күн бұрын

@@loiseilers5058 happy Christmas than either way the meaning is the same God Bless

@senianns9522 3 ай бұрын

These were the times my mother and father went through! I'm glad they met and had me in 1952, my sister in 1954 and brother in 1956. Watching these pictures brings me more admiration for my parents! They brought the family up on just about nothing! We were looked after very well, disciplined and honest. I thank them for that! We all did well in our lives! I miss them so much!

@mellie9633 4 ай бұрын

What's happened to our Britain? How I miss how we used to be, proud of our country.

@dpagain2167 4 ай бұрын

Surely you do realize that this is a propaganda piece. For example all of those smiling children leaving their parents, my father told me that it was the only time he ever cried in the war when the children, including my elder brother and sister, had to leave. I am not saying the British were not very brave and sacrificed a great deal, but the images here portrayed are for a certain purpose. A purpose that anyone who knows about modern warfare knows was very necessary.

@kennethslade8468 4 ай бұрын

To answer your question : we imported half the third world.

@susanmercurio1060 3 ай бұрын

I used to be proud of the United States

@MrDaiseymay 3 ай бұрын

@@dpagain2167 I'M SURE HE DOES. UNLESS IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE'S SEEN A FILM OF THIS AGE, WHICH IS OFTEN PARODIED IN MODERN TIMES. BUT THAT WAS HOW NEWSREELS WERE EXPRESSED. BORN IN 1941, I FULLY APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF ALL POSITIVE PROPAGANDA, IN WAR TIME. BESIDES, PEOPLE WERE FAR MORE RECEPTIVE TO IT BACK THEN, AND FAR LESS NEGATIVE, As some people are today.

@blzebub2 9 күн бұрын

You're in Russia, trolling for Putin.

@toomanythings Жыл бұрын

This was great, and the commercials were a fun touch. Thanks for uploading!

@danellis-jones1591 4 ай бұрын

Of course, there was no broadcast advertising then

@misterakt Жыл бұрын

I love this series! I had seen the 50s and 60s episodes before, but had been searching for the 40s one for ages. so glad to see them all on your channel!

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

I don't live in the past, or anything - but I enjoyed seeing the one about the 50's. Like those TV programmes, BACK IN TIME FOR TEA, (or whatever), where a family of TODAY dressed in period outfits, and watched quaint ancient televisions, etc., for entertainment!

@arthurwebber-g4l 3 ай бұрын

You took me back to when I was a kid. Thank you.

@michaeltreadwell777 3 ай бұрын

That was brilliant. My parents went through all that. Let's hope NOTHING like that ever happens again here in England !

@delinquentinparadise 2 ай бұрын

It’s happening now wth the Muslims. Can’t you see that ?

@CEng-ge6sw 12 күн бұрын

Or in the UK.

@voyaristika5673 3 ай бұрын

More gentle times, less snarling at one another. Thank you for posting!

@blzebub2 9 күн бұрын

WW2 doesn't count as snarling?

@richardb3363 4 күн бұрын

Nothing says 'gentle' like 70 million war dead.

@harryproud9679 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful Days, When England Was England.A Safe Happy Place .After The War.And Look At Us Now.

@paulnicholson1906 2 ай бұрын

it's not that bad although staying in the EU would have been a good idea. After the war there was not much prosperity. All kinds of labor unrest, things were falling apart and turbulent, careening from one crisis to another. Who are you kidding?

@blzebub2 9 күн бұрын

Way better now than the 40s, you must be some sort of troglodyte to believe otherwise.

@fredfarnackle5455 3 ай бұрын

I was born in April 1940, I remember clearly the bombs coming down, air-raid shelters, doodlebugs, fleets of bombers going overhead on their way to Germany. 1946 when bananas arrived in the shops my Mum gave me half a crown (two shillings and sixpence old money) and sent me to buy as many as I could, I came back with three bananas. I also well remember the winter of 1947, our inside toilet froze solid and so did our bathroom washbasin drain, there was frost on the inside of my bedroom windows. Things had to get better, and they did - and now look at Great Britain....

@nalanosbod1 21 күн бұрын

Outside toilets, no central heating, no showers a tin bath in front of the fire. Who would want to live like that now

@annoyingbstard9407 4 ай бұрын

The late forties were a largely forgotten part of popular British history. The war period is covered, then historians jump to the fifties (usually concentrating on the introduction of rock and roll, then the sixties (focusing on swinging London). The immediate post war period is perhaps best summed up by mixed feelings of victory, a new start with a Labour government and the realisation that the country was effectively bankrupt, the poor would remain poor and nothing would change.

@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373 4 ай бұрын

The 1950s was a period of rising living standards never experienced before

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373yes, SOME people had a rising standard of living, but there was a war to recover from, and most people had to still do washing by hand. It wasn't till the 60's that people DID get washing machines! And gas coal fires didn't come in till the 80's. I remember the times our REAL coal ran out, and we had to keep going out into the snow , to the coalshed! Cold times! Yes there WAS undoubted prigress, but it came in stages, decade by decade! What do you think?

@bbgunn917 3 ай бұрын

@@nygelmiller5293 We had gas fires in my Grandmothers London house in the 60s, plus a coal range

@nygelmiller5293 3 ай бұрын

@bbgunn917 we also had a coal range, and gas fires!

@AnthonyRooney-be2tx 2 ай бұрын

Except that the rich are getting richer

@MaryBradley-s3s 4 ай бұрын

My mum was evacuated from Hammersmith childrens home to Somerset she love it, until after the war they went back to the children home she did not like nuns were in charged.

@markfinn0 4 ай бұрын

My mother lived near Lancaster Gate (London) 1943-45. She would talk about walking across Hyde Park during the blackout - knowing that it took a certain number of steps from one landmark to the next. A house in her group of row houses was bombed - there is still a gap there, with a park. A shilling in the slot would give her gas heat for a short time on cold days. Although food rationing was in effect, her diaries tell of really good meals in nearby restaurants (but customers had to be ready to rush to the basement if air raid sirens sounded).

@AwesomeAngryBiker 3 ай бұрын

Bragger

@haroldofcardboard 2 ай бұрын

@@AwesomeAngryBiker not nice markfnnn. ignore them.

@lynnflynn5591 4 ай бұрын

During ww2, my father was an American GI stationed briefly in England before being sent to France to fight. He said the British people would definitely have fought the Germans on the streets and in the fields with whatever weapons they had. The video of young Princeses Elizabeth and Margaret encouraging the little children touched my heart. May their Souls rest in peace. 🙏 🇺🇸

@nigelhamilton815 4 ай бұрын

Special generations on both sides of the pond. God bless our veterans.

@juliahyatt5838 4 ай бұрын

I assume he survived?

@AwesomeAngryBiker 3 ай бұрын

Bragger

@johnsmith-mq4eq 3 ай бұрын

Will they fight the current invasion ?

@LawrenceBishton 3 ай бұрын

Yea I have Ann of fenced his van coff

@robsucher9419 3 ай бұрын

Ok up to a point. But, the last part about end of sweet rationing is factually incorrect. It ended on 5th Feb 1953, not in the '40s.

@bbgunn917 3 ай бұрын

yes you're right, my mother never stopped telling how she didn't taste sweets until she was 12

@eolhcytoos 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Thank you.

@normabyde4766 4 ай бұрын

Not forgetting Merseyside ( Liverpool/Wirral. ). We were heavily bombed and as a child, I spent many nights in the Anderson shelter in our garden.

@MrDaiseymay 2 ай бұрын

BORN IN BRUM IN 1941, MY MOTHER SAID THERE WAS A AIR RAID CIREN ALERT, BUT THE PLANES PASSED OVERHEAD ,ONTO ANOTHER TOWN, WE LIVED NEAR A SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, I REMEMBER 3 OF THEM ROARING OVER HEAD, WHEN I WAS IN MY PUSHCHAIR IN THE GARDEN, ABOUT 1944.

@nigelhamilton815 4 ай бұрын

The very special generation. God bless.

@whiteonggoy7009 2 ай бұрын

When people pulled together, I was born 6 years after the war but as a youngster the spirit lived on.

@debrahmcshane977 4 ай бұрын

Love these series so interesting

@eshaibraheem4218 4 ай бұрын

My brothers and I had Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy gasmasks during the war. We loved them!

@lindawatkin9667 16 күн бұрын

I was born in New York in 1940.It was very difficult to send your children away.How brave and strong,the Brits were.I salute them.

@DougMacGregor-d4e 3 ай бұрын

wonderful, thank you

@RonPickering-uj5sq 18 күн бұрын

I was a school child during the war and remember a lot of this being on the news in the cinema, we always cheered when they showed the german aircraft shotdown.

@angloaust1575 2 ай бұрын

My father was a goods guard on the railways during the war He had to perform home guard duties as well !

@pmtspmts8441 4 ай бұрын

This generation in uk today are a joke compared to the toughness of those in ww2.. same is true of usa

@susanmercurio1060 3 ай бұрын

37:50 Britain didn't exactly "shed itself" of its empire. It was forced to relinquish it.

@ConceptuallyYour 3 ай бұрын

There's nothing better than sitting with a cup of tea and letting vintage melodies penetrate your soul.

@drstevenrey 3 ай бұрын

Sadly an era I missed, being born in 1960. Interesting to see this. Good material.

@richardb3363 5 күн бұрын

You really wanted to live through a war ??

@SusanGillespie-c5d 9 күн бұрын

You are amazing. God bless you ❤

@joanneaderby2974 3 ай бұрын

It is so wonderful to only hear my own language!

@PINKFL0YD-s2h 2 ай бұрын

We are a minority in our own capital city and the second largest Birmingham. I'm glad my life is nearly over because I don't recognise this country anymore.

@asyrafnukman1991 28 күн бұрын

Terima kasih

@rosemariemann1719 4 ай бұрын

19:16: Without USA 🇺🇲help, I think we would have LOST WWll...💥😢 Didn't we have to repay lots of money for being saved ?🤔 Ironic that at 2024, our 2 countries ( among others), have the relentless influx of what many call , " Replacement Population " 😢👎🚢 It is such an insult to all the folk who suffered in WWll...😢🦉💥 My Father was nearly killed in The Battle of Britain : his plane 🛩️💥was riddled with bullet holes...😢 Mother was outside during the Blitz....😢 Her brother had his head blown off while in an army tank.😢💥 🇬🇧😢🦉😟💥😢🇬🇧

@GreenmanXIV 4 ай бұрын

Bollocks.

@jeannebonar4268 12 күн бұрын

thank you for recognizing the part usa played UK would have surely fallen i was 8 when the jPs bombed Pearl aharbor bjt we knew sooner or lter we would hwve been in war FDR was thoight to be a pacifist but he wanted to get into war he also wanted to be re elected No hedid not know about the Jap plans but he was trepidant when he had to ask congrees for war only one woman in congress obected most saw we were needed to defeat Nazi even today i fear tbat Germans are our enemies Elizabeth was nit really an assest to the mechsnics thatt was a publicity stunt she was a sham her whole life but a publicity stunt the british women sere the assest they deserve a lot of credit many american women also worked hard the whole of Europe owes the US for that war and foor all the men we lost my uncla was shot tbe dsy after D day but survived to drive a general into Berlin sadly a cousin is buried in Normanday

@dianemacfie-loucks6392 6 күн бұрын

I am so disappointed that it’s always the USA that gets credit. A huge part was from Canadian troops

@davidcochran848 20 күн бұрын

We were dragged into the horror of war and tried to make it humorous and glorious. It was just horrific what we did to each other but sadly as a race we seem to be unable to avoid war. Who profits from it?

@stephenfrankling8513 12 күн бұрын

Thankyou for your story

@joeevans1194 13 күн бұрын

Love this god bless England Scotland Wales Northeren Ireland United kingdom and all those who lost there lives protecting us all God bless Amen ❤❤

@user-hq4gu1jb3n 8 күн бұрын

Excellent documentary. But your last item is unfortunately incorrect as to its date. Sweets were still rationed when we emigrated to Canada in August 1951. So that last item shouldn't really be in a documentary about the 1940s. I definitely remember the cold and snow of the 1947-8 winter, which followed a lovely '47 summer; I was not able to get to school for a few days that winter because of huge snowdrifts.

@colinmccarthy7921 4 ай бұрын

It was a terrible time for all.We British were survivors.

@arthurwebber-g4l 23 күн бұрын

I am with you all the way. I went through it as a little boy. It was Hell.

@jeannebonar4268 12 күн бұрын

HEROS

@hazelcrabtree7432 3 ай бұрын

I was born in September 1940 and only vaguely remember some things that went on, though I clearly remember rationing and sweets coming off ration, Mum was too hard up to buy many sweets so my brother sister and I had to share 2ozs of dolly mixtures. I was not impressed they were too sweet. I still hate the sound of single engine (presumably privately owned) aeroplanes flying overhead particularly when the pilot does 'clever' manoeuvrs

@markianclark9645 3 ай бұрын

@35.55 ...prefab homes..."a sandwich consisting of 2 sheets of Asbestos cement and filled with wood wall"..i can imagine that being advertised in the 2020's..don't forget to smoke too as that increases the chance of Asbestosis to over 90% certainty..i guess people were tougher made back then

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

You've forgotten the joys of polio, rickets, dentures etc. Not tougher. They just died younger.

@Goldi3loxrox 4 ай бұрын

Windrush. The truth is, as they say in this film, that they ''came to find work in the UK '' , as unemployment in Jamaca was very high at the time. . The gov asked Transport for London if they would be willing to train them to drive the busses, but many of them stayed on in the UK for better jobs and opportunities. It was we doing them a favour not the other way around as many have been lead to believe.

@keithkhan174 4 ай бұрын

West Indians as they were known at the time, should be eternally grateful for their introduction into prosperity & out of the stone-age. They didn't build England -- England built them.

@robsucher9419 3 ай бұрын

@@keithkhan174racist claptrap

@vincekerrigan8300 3 ай бұрын

@@robsucher9419 No. It's true - facts are not racist. It was towns in the West Indies who begged London Transport to give their people jobs, because their unemployment was so bad they feared civil unrest. There was NO shortage of English workers employed by LT.

@robsucher9419 3 ай бұрын

@@vincekerrigan8300show me a reliable source for that 'fact'. Until then, it's filed under racist claptrap. After all, it took a change in law to deal with the racism elsewhere in UK. Eg see Bristol Bus boycott of '63. So your claim is looking very, very shaky.

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

@@robsucher9419 Unfortunately it's the internet. It's not the only place you'll find this crap but the protection of being annonymous means your bile can be nastier.

@nigelhamilton815 4 ай бұрын

My word. Our queen is an inspiration.

@rosemariemann1719 4 ай бұрын

Nigel, Yes. Princess Elizabeth ( later Q.E.ll) was a fine example to women who worked so hard while their men were away fighting in WWll.🇬🇧💥😢🦉🛩️ 🚢⭐💥💣😢🇺🇲

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

@rosemariemann1719 Sorry to disillusion you Rosemary - but when the Royal Family was downsized, in Thatcher's time , so not all of them could open Theatres, etc., your revered Queen did a deal with Thatcher - whereby taxpayers still had to pay the Royals the SAME. Only, all the money now went exclusively to the WINDSOR family, who coined it in. In return, THATCHER got a peerage from the Queen!

@thomasnewton8997 4 ай бұрын

It was definitely a great service and great inderstey and selling it off and putting profit before the customer and the efficiency completely wrecked it

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

Princess Elizabeth was very game, in joining the army, and learning to drive - on a LORRY! And she could service them, too! You have had the opportunity of seeing it yourselves, in this film!

@susanmercurio1060 3 ай бұрын

I wondered how Britain made all of the airplanes and ships, but I see that the Germans delivered a lot of iron in the wrecked airplanes that dropped into England.

@flybobbie1449 4 ай бұрын

1:54 of course the hundreds of ethnics sent by different trains..BBC told me that.

@davedevonside8870 4 ай бұрын

Very interesting

@nigelhamilton815 4 ай бұрын

My dad was a d day dodger according to my mum. He was busy fighting in Italy. Lol. 😂😂

@AwesomeAngryBiker 3 ай бұрын

Bragger

@goldkhw 3 ай бұрын

My Uncle was a D-Day Dodger too. I sang the entire song on a bus when I was three, my aunt told me years ago. Everyone clapped and I bowed. Now I'm going to listen to it on KZbin. (CONTINUED) No, I couldn't have sung all that so I think I must have done a da de da da da da with the tune, but I do remember singing, "For we're the D-Day Dodgers, The boys from Tripoli," because I just sang it now and I remember that line to this day. And my grandfather had a gas mask in a cupboard upstairs. I used to play with that. And my Dad took apart my grandfather's bomb shelter and I was rocking back and forth on the filthy corrugated pieces with my brother. He then made that into a garden shed and it was there, always. A storage shed. An aunt visiting from London saw me playing outside and told me that I could have anything that I wanted from any of the shops on the street. She was shocked when I asked for a bunch of bananas. Off we went and I got 4 bananas in a brown paper bag. Heaven. I rushed home to show my mum. I gave one to my mum and one to my baby brother and I feasted on two bananas. Unheard of. Two. And that story went down in the family history; how all I wanted in the world was a bunch of bananas. I was 5.

@Swaggerlot 4 ай бұрын

What a lovely black and White video.

@dianemacfie-loucks6392 6 күн бұрын

Not just American soldiers in 1943 but a lot of Canadian troops

@abendrothmturee4355 4 ай бұрын

💜What a lovley Message from the two Princesses!💜🤍

@susanmercurio1060 3 ай бұрын

25:55 This is what brought the NHS to Britain.

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

The babies inside the gasmask contraptions, look so cute!

@juliahyatt5838 4 ай бұрын

Bet, after the war, people didn't continue to wear masks, unlike some sad people today!

@questioneverything-rf3yf 4 ай бұрын

Man, did you say a maskfull

@eshaibraheem4218 4 ай бұрын

Well, there was no longer a threat of being gassed, was there...

@AwesomeAngryBiker 3 ай бұрын

@@eshaibraheem4218there wasn't, just like there's no longer the dire threat of an unnamed virus today

@angloaust1575 4 ай бұрын

Railways weren't axed then Because cars weren't available to working class people When they were in the 1950s The railways lost out And more deaths on roads Occurred whole families Decimated!

@annoyingbstard9407 4 ай бұрын

Is that a poem?

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

@@annoyingbstard9407you're cheeky, but funny!

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

To angloaust In the 1980's, I was a park keeper. In the borough of Epsom, and Ewell. I did wonder why there were NO park railings, in Epsom., yet there WERE in Ewell! Actually, it was because park railings were required to be SURRENDERED, to melt down fir BULLETS! But Ewell KEPT their park railings, by SURRENDERING their CARS to melt down! No wonder there weren't many cars after the war!

@augusthome9860 3 ай бұрын

@@nygelmiller5293 Lots of railings and gates disappeared from houses for the war effort. Some people replaced them after the war but many didn’t, which is a shame because it’s the finishing touch to a house.

@giantputt7066 4 ай бұрын

They were better days than life under Starmer

@Sharon_Mc 4 ай бұрын

🇬🇧 whilst I'm not a fan of Starmer, I prefer being alive today.

@richardjones8699 4 ай бұрын

Don't be stupid.

@Sharon_Mc 4 ай бұрын

Ps. I'm confused by your reply @@richardjones8699

@stevedowns9450 4 ай бұрын

How ridiculous!!

@truebrit3578 4 ай бұрын

Why is it people think every forum needs endless political comments

@simonf8902 3 ай бұрын

Britain was happier in WW2 than now.

@richardb3363 5 күн бұрын

You must be joking - or delusional - or a bot.

@simonf8902 5 күн бұрын

@ all 3.

@richardb3363 5 күн бұрын

@@simonf8902 LoL

@torbenlarsen331 6 күн бұрын

All of the shown people are slim.😊

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

They didn't have the abundance of cheap food we have now and also many smoked.

@flybobbie1449 4 ай бұрын

I wonder how much sabotage went on but not reported.

@nygelmiller5293 4 ай бұрын

To flybobbie. Please explain what sabotage you mean!

@flybobbie1449 4 ай бұрын

@@nygelmiller5293 Agents infiltrating factories, cutting power lines and such. Never any mention as though every citizen was a saint. Remember Isle of Man became a concentration camp for German British citizens.

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

If it wasn't reported then we wouldn't know. I've certainly not heard that it was common. The British were pretty successful at grabbing German spies when they landed. Often turning them. Crime, on the other hand, did go up. Which is something most are no aware of. As did road accidents. There were also strikes in the UK and USA (again, something most will not have heard of). Some places Churchill went he was booed. He wasn't as universally loved as people now imagine. It wasn't all love and sacrifice. However, it wasn't the opposite either. Although there was spin in newsreels and self-censoreship in reporting the press was surprisingly free compared to Germany and defeats and disasters were reported, despite some big cover ups. It was a concious choice at the beginning of the war and quite a brave one considering the circumstances. It was jingoistic but, to keep the people's trust, it wasn't complete white washing.

@elektricsammy 4 ай бұрын

That’s some good stuff they’re smokin.

@JJONNYREPP 3 ай бұрын

Britain in the 1940s 14.9.24 decent beer would be in order....and cake.

@jfb_ventures 4 ай бұрын

As a veteran of South Africa's Bush War, I can attest that there are no true winners in war. In the 1940s, both Germany and Britain suffered immense losses, with neither emerging victorious. One often-overlooked tragedy was the abuse some children faced after being relocated to the countryside. Another uncomfortable fact is that Britain targeted civilians in Dresden before Germany retaliated in kind. However, those events are now part of history, and the focus has shifted. Today, Germany and Britain face a new potential adversary: Russia. Germany is already preparing for possible conflict with Russia by 2030.

@AwesomeAngryBiker 3 ай бұрын

Stop bragging

@susanmercurio1060 3 ай бұрын

NATO are idiots to try to stir up a war with Russia.

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

Sorry but your uncomfortable fact about Dresden is not true. The bombing of Dresden wasn't until 1945. Many years after the bombing of British, and European cities. It was late in the war and German didn't retaliate for the bombing of Dresden because it no longer had the capability to do so. You've not got what happened wrong, just the order. Neither side can take the high moral ground when it comes to bombing civilians. It was total war, and all that that meant. Part of the reason it happened was because bombing just wasn't that accurate. Hitting a city was possible. Just about. Hitting a factory, almost impossible. For the British the theory was to de-house the workforce and demoralise the population. For the Germans the aims were to bomb manufacturing towns (e.g. Coventry, Southampton) ports (e.g. London, Liverpool) and to demoralize the population. They also staged raids based on the German Baedeker guide to Britain to hit cultural and historical sites. The u-boat campaign was aimed at starving out Britain (just had been the WW1 British blockade of Germany). The USAAF raids on Japan systematically destroyed every city worth hitting. No side in the war has clean hands when it comes to killing civilians. Some of the largest losses on D-Day were the French civilians. WW2 is the war with the highest proportion of civilian deaths compared to previous wars. But it was eighty years ago. Currently the one killing civilians (as well as a generation of his own nation's young men and Ukrainian men) is Putin (not Russia, which is a landmass) and we should unify against him.

@jacksugden8190 Ай бұрын

Only proved that we was as bad the Gerry’s with murder and destruction with side of our island.

@ivorlewis1739 3 ай бұрын

I thought Blair was bad bad news then we get our version of stalin

@littlefluffybushbaby7256 6 күн бұрын

Don't you think you may be exagerating just a bit there, or are you really that unaware of who Stalin was. Not sure how you would have coped during the blitz. Probably not very well.