Protecting the Innocent - Kids Evacuations - WW2 - On the Homefront 003

[@WorldWarTwo]

Welcome back to another episode of On the Homefront! Researching this episode about evacuations was a fun one to dive to because in the UK, we learn about about children evacuees during the war but of course what we're not taught is the mass scale of this operation. For each of the millions of children displaced during the war, they each came away with it with their own story and I hope I've captured that here. Looking forward to reading your comments! Be sure to follow us over on instagram at instagram.com/world_war_two_realtime/ and let us know what other aspects of life on the homefront you'd like to hear about! Cheers, Izzy *RULES OF CONDUCT* STAY CIVIL AND POLITE we will delete any comments with personal insults, or attacks. AVOID PARTISAN POLITICS AS FAR AS YOU CAN we reserve the right to cut off vitriolic debates. HATE SPEECH IN ANY DIRECTION will lead to a ban. RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, OR SLAMMING OF MINORITIES will lead to an immediate ban. PARTISAN REVISIONISM, ESPECIALLY HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR DENIAL will lead to an immediate ban.

[@temistogen]

Can you do a vid on Diana Budisavljević and 10,000 kids she saved from Croatian nazis?

[@foreigner8710]

Hello, TimeGhost crew. Love your channels and your historical projects. I was wondering if there was a possibility to help you, guys, with historical materials while not being a Patreon supporter. Is it possible to provide you with interesting historical materials for future episodes?

[@AatiNiiranen]

Hi TimeGhost team. Me and my friends would be delighthed if it would be able for your channel to make a episode about the strugless of the nordic countries in war against the germans and soviets. I would be delighted to watch that episode if you could make it.

[@nymalous3428]

War affects more than just the battlefront (and that's assuming that the battlefront is far away). Thank you for helping us to not forget!

[@secretsquirrel4101]

Your truly splendid and lovely!! Great Job!

[@nightflyer3242]

That dark red lipstick ain't gonna fool me, Indy!

[@cyrusoriel8979]

😂

[@DasSmach]

I have to say.. that speech by Elisabeth is the most powerful thing I have ever heared.. A girl talking of hope and peace, you can feel how lighthearted she is and considering how brutal everything else in this conflict is, rembering that there is still good and hope in that broken world of the 2nd World War is just.. uplifting

[@TheCheese1988]

And yet her desire for those youths to grow to make the world brighter and better seems like a long forgotten pipe dream.

[@Litany_of_Fury]

My Granddad who is 92 this year was one of these children sent from a poor family in London to the countryside. He was sent to a country house on the East Coast and then later to Wales. He observed kindness and cruelty from those willing to help and some not so willing. Many people in the country were forced to take on children and were spiteful for it. My Granddad and his siblings were worked hard and did not commonly eat well until they were sent to Wales to a Catholic school. He witness German and British planes over the countryside, he could even recall receiving a salute from a low flying BF109. My Granddad picked up linguistics and a passion for planes during this time and was put to work in the Argentinian embassy as a teenager before being forced to join the army by his father in 1946 when he turned 17. He served in Malaya and later became a paratrooper.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for sharing!

[@biscuit715]

I wonder how the bomber crews and their escorts felt targeting civilians like that. That bf109 pilot saluting your granddad, but then likely killing/assisting in killing someone just like him. I don't think I'd have the mental strength to do that.

[@Litany_of_Fury]

@@biscuit715 Up to the individual soldier for how they justify their actions. If I were a British Bomber i'd find solace in the fact weren't aimed directly at civilians for the sake of killing civilians, always a target like a wartime factory or a bridge. If I were a German i'd have to fall back on just fallowing orders.

[@sirzooky]

Indy brushes up nice.

[@kstreet7438]

War changes a man.

[@NiceGriffin]

@@kstreet7438 So true.

[@gcircle]

These War On Humanity and On The Homefront episodes are a good complement to the Biography and Technology side episodes. Also, Anna is a great narrator.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks for both!

[@biblehistoryscience3530]

Thus C.S. Lewis' _Narnia_ adventures.

[@billd.iniowa2263]

Ya beat me to it. First thing I thought to comment. Did you know he and Tokien would read each other their stories to date at a pub and talk about their work?

[@eldaxeruskalocraw4213]

I wanted to say it too

[@hannahskipper2764]

Me three! I was thinking about Lewis during this episode. 😁

[@oLii96x]

Lots of fantasy universes were created during war times...

[@BrightonandHoveActually]

@@billd.iniowa2263 The Eagle & Child - nicknamed the Bird & Baby. It is still there.on St Giles - although currently closed because of the Covid-19 epidemic.

[@samuelkatz1124]

My grandfather was one of those children on the kindertransport. His parents fortunately survived by fleeing to Yugoslavia before invasion, then to Argentina, then America. His parents were extremely skeptical of the kindertransport, believing the Germans would just take the children as hostages.

[@rosiehawtrey]

Hope he stayed in Inbredistan my friend. Because what happened to the KDT kids who ended up in Israel wasn't pretty in the least. They were treated not much better than the sonderkommando because they were, for some unbelievable logic, considered to be roughly the equivalent of collaborators... And treated accordingly.

[@jakubcesarzdakos5442]

Narnia flashbacks...

[@vaclav_fejt]

The best moment when a film actually expanded on a book. A single sentence to a whole scene.

[@rubycooly2009]

I remember when we watched the movie in school my (not history) teacher said it was ww1

[@paulfisker]

Long way for Polish kids... 200000 were kidnapped by German forces and integrated into German families... Documents were destroyed, only few remembered their Polish families and came back. There might be still many of them raised as Germans... Some never bielieved it when they got letters...

[@Andre-by4su]

lucky kids

[@paulfisker]

@@Andre-by4su

[@biscuit715]

@@paulfisker perhaps he means to say that they were lucky to escape more extreme nazi methods?

[@paulfisker]

@@biscuit715 Yeah, good thing they were kidnapped from their patents...

[@biscuit715]

@@paulfisker No one said it was a good thing

[@UHCredhead]

Great episode Anna! Really enjoyed hearing the queens speech too, her voice sounds the same nearly 80s years on!! Fantastic work

[@anthonyhayes1267]

Immortality has a way of doing that

[@BigBoss-sm9xj]

The blood of virgins do wonders lol

[@gelgamath_9903]

@Zachary Durocher gargling virgin blood once a day will keep your voice sounding young and youthful for the rest of your life

[@pnutz_2]

they've used her christmas speeches for research into what happens to your voice as you age

[@SirRRubis]

My home town in France counted over 700 inhabitants before the two world wars. after it was only about 50. now its at 120.

[@chegeny]

One of my professors survived the Köln bombings as a child. I recall how she described the bombs getting closer to their home, the ground shaking and deafening explosions. People were crying and she confided that she "lost her bladder" and then all was black and she woke up wounded under rubble. She was relocated to relatives in a rural area. She was lucky.compared to people as in the photograph at 2:25 of the Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen murders. A woman trying to shied a child from a bullet.

[@brankeane2830]

My grandfather told me he almost got blown up by the Luftwaffe in 1941, when he was back home in Caterham, having returned from evacuation. I think he said was just visiting home for a few days (not sure how common that was - would be interested to find out), and during an air raid one night a stick of bombs landed in the street outside only 50m away. Funnily enough, as he told it none of their windows broke in the explosion, despite it being so close. He was also reminiscing with me, last week, apropos of the anniversary of VE Day, about all the lights in London (and all of Western Europe) coming back on at once, that night - apparently it was quite the sight to see. Wonder if we’ll have a moment like that with our current crisis.

[@rosiehawtrey]

Re the windows - it's not a function of distance it's a function of what's in the way - if a car between windows and ground burst for example there's a good chance the blast will be deflected and nothing will happen - on the other hand - constrained blast can kill without leaving a mark (a reason why you *don't* fire an rpg in a closed room...)

[@ariochiv]

@@rosiehawtrey It's an issue of pressure difference; if there is an open door or other means for the air to escape, rupture of the windows is less likely.

[@ariochiv]

Alas, there will be no "VV" day... and this will not be the last time we have to deal with this type of situation. Hopefully the next time, the response will be more measured and pragmatic, and less hysterical.

[@Yoghurtslinger]

My Grandfather is from an area around London, he was evacuated at the age of 8 to a town just outside of Swansea and came back able to speak Welsh to a an intermediate standard and he picked up a Welsh accent. He stayed with a family on a working farm up until 1942 and he stayed in contact with the family for years into the future.

[@Yoghurtslinger]

*obviously he got his south east accent back now in a minute 😂

[@1969Risky]

My grandmother told me that there was a huge amount of war orphans after the war sleeping rough in Manchester. They were looking for their families. As my grandmother went back to working as a chef after the war, she fed a lot of these war orphans & some lived with my grandmother's family. My great grandfather's & great uncle's accounts which I read years ago as they rebuilt the rail network in Europe when they were with the British army. My great grandfather who was a POW in WWI was sent to a farm in Bavaria where the family there treated him well. He did not want to leave Germany when he was repatriated in 1919. At the end of WWII he visited the family in Bavaria & found that the livestock had been requisitioned by the German army as well as the Americans. This family was also helping war orphans & DP's. My great grandfather "requisitioned" food & some livestock to help the family. What happened to the war orphans, no one knows. In 1992 the ABC/BBC commissioned a mini-series called 'The Leaving of Liverpool'. It dealt with a young boy & a girl who were war orphans. They are transported to Australia, where they are placed in a labour camp, and later forced to work at a sheep station. I highly recommend that it be watched. It's always sad to see/hear of those children of that era with what they went through as they were the innocence to this horrific war. We hear of the horrors that went on but we don't hear of the good that happened.

[@padawanmage71]

IIRC, that’s how the start of ‘The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe’ began: with the children being sent from the city and to a large home.

[@owlo7821]

My grandfather was quite a lucky one, his uncle was in a reserved occupation as a vet and was considered important enough to have a car. This meant he could drive to all the local farms and treat any animals that got sick as they became especially important once rationing came into place, I love talking to him about his childhood during the war and early memories. it's so interesting to learn about history and realise your family lived through it.

[@ralfonso888]

Don't let the nasty comments discourage you from what you're doing. The series is amazing and well-presented. Besides, there are subtitles for those having troubles with the accent. Keep calm and carry on!

[@fatihsahin1305]

Quarantine has done wonders for Indy. Look at him! He looks so much younger now.

[@agoran]

Wow. These series should be obligatory for people to watch. Maybe then we will not forget the horrors of war.

[@xberman]

There is a very good film called "Mother of mine" (Äideistä parhain, 2005) about Finnish children relocated to Sweden. It' a beautiful, moving film and I highly recommend it!

[@ralepej]

How about song " Sotaorvon laulu"? kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6PddnyBjsqDqdE

[@ralepej]

I actually know that house where that story is based

[@karoltakisobie6638]

Good film. Thanks for bringing this up.

[@vrenak]

Just a few days ago a documentary was shown on danish tv about the finnish kids that got sent here, with a focus on the difficulties about the repatriation. One would think this would be an easy dilemma, but it's not that easy.

[@Lasstpak]

Ja should have read the whole comment section. The movie is beautifully sad and moving

[@hannayoung9657]

My grandparents took in Finnish children, reason both them remembered the small starvation during WW1 and so wanted to help, no child should be hungry as they were-

[@657449]

Mark Twain had a story or poem called the War Prayer. It started with a call for death and destruction to the enemy and went into the results of that. Widows, orphans, starvation, etc.

[@andreaslundberg2978]

That story was beautiful, horrible, and chilling. Thank you for making me aware of it!

[@SauberC10]

I recently discovered that both my fathers parents (my grandparents) were War Orphans and brought to the UK, but they were not a part of the kinder transport, from what my dad knows from them they were brought to the UK shortly after the war 1945-1946 and placed in orphanages here, I know my grandmother was taken from Germany near to Hamburg but where my grandfather is from is completely unknown to any of us, as he was adopted shortly after his arrival and was given the surname of his adopted family, so today here I am with my dad, both of us with a surname that is not our own and not knowing where we came from.

[@georget8008]

Subscribing to a Dna ancestry database might give you some answers regarding your grandfather's origins

[@minskhanly1988]

Many British children came to a place in Australia called Fairbridge Farm. They survived the war but suffered much abuse, they are our forgotten generation

[@richardgeering7074]

A future head of Australian Broadcasting corporation, David Hill, was sent there. He made a TV series about his experience.

[@nymalous3428]

3:30 Operation Pied Piper... seems a bit of a contradiction, the Piper stole children because he wasn't paid, whereas this operation was conceived of to keep children safe until they could be returned to their families after hostilities ended. Still, it has a poetic quality to it. There was an old Disney movie that had some aspects of this to it: Bed-knobs and Broomsticks. It's even got a few other touches on the wartime experience in England in it. 18:20 I just had my teen-aged sister listen to Princess Elizabeth's broadcast. She is taking a class about WW2 and I thought it might resonate with her. (She was a bit distracted about reconciling the young voice with the current monarch. Oh well.)

[@VaclavB001]

I have to mention Sir Nicholas Winton here - 1stJuly will be the fifth anniversary of his demise. His effort led to saving 669 children from Czechoslovakia to GB in 1938.

[@frankwhite3406]

Excellent Episode Indeed! Most Informative. My Grandparents were among those evacuated out of London in 1939! The old family home being Bombed out during The Blitz. ( They were all issued with gas masks and carry case , they also had an Anderson Shelter in the back garden which was very effective ) the house went but the shelter survived!

[@vvvppp6021]

This episode is really heartbreaking....

[@howardbrandon11]

Yeah, this one was hard to watch and re-watch without tearing up.

[@anthonyhayes1267]

My grandmother was one of those children. Thank you for preserving their memory

[@rosswebster7877]

Well done Anna and Time Ghost Crew! Watching this I realize that in our day and age we really give Elizabeth II too much flack for seeming old callous and frumpy. It’s really amazing to see and hear her give such a compassionate and inspiring speech.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you!

[@sch1191]

This series is so much what I love about TimeGhost - the stories, perspective, and events I hadn't encountered before. I love the inclusion of poetry - the words of women of the time. Beautiful.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you!

[@Game_Hero]

Already when she was 14, Queen Elizabeth the second was inspiring.

[@cobbler9113]

Two of my grandparents had a very varied experience during the war. My Nan lived in rural Hampshire so would have been in the thick of it and spent those years with many evacuees from London as well as Southampton and Portsmouth. My Granddad on the other hand refused to be evacuated from Sunderland and his mother (apparently quite a terrifyingly strong willed woman from what my Mum and Nan said of her) kept him with her. My other granddad hasn’t told me about his experiences so for me it’s always interesting to hear about other people’s experiences. Should also add that it was nice to hear HM provide another reassuring statement, even at such a young age. She is truly my country’s greatest asset.

[@whatonearth9809]

6:55 That’s George Formby isn’t it??? Where’s his ukulele? 😂😂😂

[@darrenblack5541]

A great sub series that gave a better picture of the bleak lives of the ordinary citizens of the war-torn countries and also giving the wars the true picture of not just being numbers,lines and divisions on the map

[@LukeBunyip]

Whenever I see Anna or Sparty in the first second, I know that we're not going to get any sugar coating. These guys are doing an exemplary job in showing the realities and the consequences of war and politics. Respect.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@michaelkfoury9467]

"Look mummy, there's an aeroplane up in the sky"- Pink Floyd - Goodbye Blue Sky

[@RabelFibal1]

Good bye blue sky🎶🎵🎶🕊🕊

[@firemangan2731]

I’d never thought I’d hear or read “Princess Elizebeth”. We never really give a thought that old people in our time used to be like us young folks and the tought of one day we’d all become senior citizens is very deep...

[@john211murphy]

My Mother-in-law was evacuated from her home and family in south London before the "Blitz" began. She told me that she had a "Terrible Time" but refused to go into detail. Because of the "Terrible Time" she was returned to her home in South London (Peckham) just in time for the first air raids. These traumas left her with what we would call PTSD now. I felt that part of he mind never left that time of her life. She was always a "Rabbit in the Headlights" sort of person. She was also a kind and loving Wife, Mother and Grandmother until her last day.

[@Pioneer_DE]

Wait, you aren't Indy...

[@christopherconard2831]

It's one of the new skins you get with the DLC expansion.

[@mybutthasteeth1347]

@@christopherconard2831 I hope they haven't been bought by EA

[@Pioneer_DE]

@@christopherconard2831 Fucking greedy Paradox with its Hoi4 Expansions for 20$

[@cybertronbob]

When you refer to middle and lower class children being evacuated and what they needed to pack, I gotta say; it's working class, not lower class. My grandad (who was evacuated from Hull during the war) always said "We're not lower than anyone".

[@BangFarang1]

Well, most of the middle class are hard workers too (that how they got their wealth). Lower is short for *lower income class* , not lower people.

[@cybertronbob]

@@BangFarang1 great. I still don't want to be called as such.

[@BangFarang1]

@@cybertronbob We all hate to be categorized. I understand you. On the other hand, lower income shouldn't exist in 2020.

[@jonathanball8237]

My complements to the presenter and the team for delivering an unbiased sensitive overview of the subject.. As a Brit i think it’s important we highlight everyone’s hardship.. especially the innocent on the German side since they’re often ignored for expediency sake...

[@markhodge7]

My mom, now 90, was evacuated from London to the Isle of Wight when she was 9 years old. The next year she returned to London, after the threat of invasion was over, only to endure The Blitz. If you want to see an excellent movie about life for a child in London, and the evacuation countryside, watch Hope and Glory. My mom says that it was exactly like this movie depicts, including teenage girls using an ink pen to draw a line up the back of their legs to "fake" a pair of stockings. She was in hysterics watching it. It's a brilliant and very humorous movie :)

[@gutollewelyn7562]

A lot of evacuees sent to Wales had particular difficulty due to language differences. They were sent to rural areas where vast majority of local children spoke Welsh as a first language and even many adults at that time would have had a poor grasp of English. It was a heck of a cultural challenge for the evacuees, who had already gone through a traumatic experience.

[@smokerjim]

If anyone is interested, there is a bronze sculpture / memorial to the Kinder Transport outside Liverpool Street station in London.

[@Javaman92]

Like, is not the word that describes my thoughts of this. Needful, balancing, warning, these words come much closer. I seem to be susceptible to my emotions today, this made me tear up in several places. History, it's important. I hope that we heed the lessons that it teaches.

[@domhogan7842]

My uncle, born early 1943, was evacuated as an infant to relatives in Ireland (Free State)- his parents lived and worked in Trafford Park, Manchester after coming over. The next street over had been blitzed just before Christmas 1940, so the German attacks in 1944 had them send him home to Donegal.

[@vergresv3480]

I don`t know why but this video made cry and overthink about the situation of kids in wars...

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

my mum was evacuated in the first lot with her mother and sister from Newcastle but they went home again when the Phoney War didn't amount to anything. They didn't get evacuated again and survived quite fine during the bombing.

[@trizvanov]

The Soviet Union had a similar program going, where tens of thousands of children were relocated further east, with many ending up living in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

[@trizvanov]

@joseaca I am fairly certain that only people capable of carrying firearms stayed back. Children were evacuated away from the western borders way before then.

[@adamhunter7659]

"Goodnight Mr Tom" is an excellent children's novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy evacuated from London and housed by a grumpy widowed bloke who eventually warms to him, discovering that the boy was being abused by his mentally ill mother in the capital. Certainly there were been kids who suffered awfully, but from what you hear the comforting families and rural peace did a lot of folk a lot of good...

[@Pauna2896]

My grandpa was sent to Sweden as a kid, and even tho he returned to Finland, he had basically turned into a Swede living in Finland since he was so young while there.

[@nathanhuff6733]

This "homefront" portion is awsome! So missing from everything else! Thank you! Your all amazing, keep kicking ass n learning us all da things!

[@jackjones3919]

Absolutely fantastic episode!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@brokenbridge6316]

I like this lady host. Hope she appears more often.

[@nightrunner3701]

Uh, is she married to 1 of the team? No? Thats a lot of makeup.

[@Blastoice]

@@nightrunner3701 She's very monotone. Indie has a better tone and mucks about a bit! I got bored watching this lady! ☹ Sorryyyyy

[@audiosurfarchive]

@@nightrunner3701 She's the daughter of Astrid.

[@vladleninnussr]

Yes! Another awesome video, thank you guys!!

[@pmcmanus420]

I don't care if she's not Indy Neidell (still not 100 per cent convinced), I'm loving this series. I'm fascinated with the lives of average people throughout history.

[@naythen.]

My grandparents would tell me stories about their life during the blitz and about how because my grandfather was half German and only spoke German he was harassed, spat on, attacked by other kids and was briefly arrested because the police thought his family were Nazi spies

[@andysm1964]

A wonderful and poignant episode for me,as my Father was evacuated from London to rural Woodbridge in Suffolk.Here is the personal twist,that over 70 years later,he has been located to Ipswich (or nearby by) as an elderly man ,not far from Woodbridge for hospital treatment in these Pandemic times.My ex from Emden,Ostfeisland,her late Father was evacuated from the area to rural areas in N.w Germany..Vielen danke ,Anna,fur eine emotionale und personliche episode

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks! You're welcome!

[@guywerry279]

Cool episode - Ben Wicks, who wound up as a comedian and writer of some note here in Canada was one of these war orphans from Britian. Memory fails me as to whether he was sent directly to Canada first or whether he wound up here after being orphaned. At any rate, he wound up in Canada and wrote at least one top-notch book about war brides who married Canadians - often winding up in SOD HUTS (literally homes made out of dirt) on the Canadian prairies without running water, electricity or indoor plumbing. This after as much as a WEEK on at train - off the ship in Halifax and then 2/3 of the way across Canada to Saskatchewan or Alberta. The culture shock is well described by Wicks, whose own experiences must have been traumatic.

[@jovanognjenovic4516]

Can you please do a episode about Diana Budisavljevic ,she was a humanitarian who saved thousands of kids from Ustashe concentracion camp.

I can't understand why this videos dont have as much views as the main ones. We think wronglythat war in the trenches is the most important, a lot of effort will be needed to make people realise that war in the homefront is as important (if not more) as the one fought with machine guns. Please keep up with the great work Anna!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@waerts1]

Indy looks great when he grows out his hair!

[@vagabond594]

loving the content in wing of the world war two channel I look forward to the next episode keep up the good work

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@victor9sur768]

My Nan (grandmother, mother's mother. whatever you call them), along with her brothers, weren't evacuated during the war and remained in London for the whole war, she was born in 1938 so the war was literally her whole life. She has told me stories of how her brothers, when the GIs arrived would place her on top of a post box (they're about 4-5 ft tall large red objects here in the UK) and the GIs would throw sweets at the kids, her brothers would then collect the sweets and leave her on top of the post box. That's not to say they didn't care for her as her brothers would also push her under a bush and lay on top of her when they were strafed whilst playing in the streets (they lived in the north east of London and so when planes over shot their target at the docks they were in the places where "spare" bombs were dropped).

[@EJ_Red]

I know this is off topic but this episode reminded me of a Hulu commercial I watched earlier today while binge watching a show. In it you hear elderly women talk about the moment they were born while you are shown images of the panic of COVID such as hospitals, quarantine areas, etc worldwide. But as the elders talk the images of COVID begin to be replaced/shown side-by-side of pictures and videos taken during the Spanish Flu epidemic of the early 1900s ie a mother and her newborn child in a hospital of the modern day is shown next to a mother with her own newly born child inside a hospital during the Spanish Flu. And as more images are shown, the elderly start recalling more moments of their birth, such as being surrounded by doctors and nurses, claiming "Although we were quarantined, we were not alone," basically saying that being in their mother's arms and surrounded by helpful and friendly folk was enough; it is around this point that an image of a 1920 newly-made mother holding her baby surrounded by doctors is replaced by a modern woman showing off her baby to relatives on webcam. The commercial then ends showing the face of one lone elderly woman saying "My name is X(Forgive me, I don't remember) and I turn 100-years old this year. We will make it through." The reason why I brought this up on a video about the Homefront of WWII is because it struck a cord with me and civilian life during great tragedies of human history, especially concerning children. Cheers to the mothers who faced the endured of the past, especially those who made difficult choices to ensure their children stayed safe, and I hope you all had an amazing Mother's Day despite COVID! Back on topic, can you do a video on the effects of war once it was over on civilian life? Like the reconstruction process and stuff? I only know about the military side of WWII so I never got to see the civilian side myself.

[@TammoKis]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_war_children : "During World War II some 70,000 Finnish children (Finnish: sotalapset, the 'war children' Swedish: krigsbarn) were evacuated from Finland, chiefly to Sweden, but also to Norway and Denmark.[1] Most were evacuated during the Continuation War (1941-1944) to ease the situation for their parents who set out to rebuild their homes in the re-conquered Karelia returning from the 1940 evacuation of Finnish Karelia. The first surge of evacuees arrived, however, during the Winter War when the Finns had reasons to fear a humanitarian catastrophe following the expected Soviet occupation."

[@gregski4130]

Quite interesting is episode which involved Polish passenger ship "Batory". In 1940 over 480 kids borded ship and headed Australia. According to trip schedule children were supposed to disembark in India and continue trip by another ship. But they got so much along with Polish crew members that they raised rebellion and refused to disembark. Finally British administration allowed "Battoory" to continue trip to the port of destination.

[@nickatiah1]

This is a great series. Thank you so much.

[@WorldWarTwo]

You're welcome, thanks!

[@williamhild1793]

Excellent and informative video, Anna. Thank you!

[@WorldWarTwo]

You're welcome, thanks!

[@Jakob_DK]

My grandmother wrote a list with the first 107 times they carried my mother to the reinforced room in the basement. They were at the fifth floor of the building. My mother is born in 1941. (In Aarhus in Denmark)

[@Nill-o8z]

I liked the presenter. She got more at easy and flowing better as the presentation went on. Cheers anna, welcome aboard.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@catholicmilitantUSA]

Love how the episode starts with air raids on my country, Malta. I wish a special episode on Malta were done one day. This tiny 27 km long island took more bombs than London during the blitz...

[@AQuietNight]

Well done. Children are not often covered in war histories even though they are involuntarily forced to participate in them.

[@alexamerling79]

Thanks for posting these! Hope you are staying safe.

[@WorldWarTwo]

We are, thanks!

[@farhanrahman7119]

Anna keeps getting better and better,plus brilliant episode !

[@korbell1089]

"And in fact some of them won't return home." Some of these children are thinking "I could go back to the East End of London or I could stay in the countryside" *Theme song for Green Acres begins playing in the background* Sadly, ever since man first picked up a rock and threw it at another it is always the civilian population who suffers the worst whenever there is a war.

[@brokenbridge6316]

The evacuation of British children is the most famous children's evacuation of all. Glad they showed the German evacuation of children too. But what about the Russian evacuation of children too. I did hear that it happen. I'm just curious as to how wide spread it is? Nice job.

[@WorldWarTwo]

We will probably get there in a future video

[@brokenbridge6316]

@@WorldWarTwo---Okay. Good to know. Thanks.

[@LightxHeaven]

It's crazy to think that young Princess Elizabeth is still alive and kicking to this day, what I wouldn't give to know some of her private conversations with all the prime ministers, presidents and monarchs she's has known throughout her long reign.

[@pastlife960]

Aw, this brings back memories of the day we dressed up as evacuees in primary school and actors came in to play the part of WW2 era characters. Good times. Also my school was right next to where the Balham rail disaster occurred. You can still see the discoloured tarmac where the hole in the road was filled in.

[@tomlambrecht9499]

This series is really good and gives a fascinating new perspective. Anna is an awesome presenter!! Did she study history too? :)

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks! No, she didn't. She read a lot about it by herself though

[@Lasstpak]

A great movie about Finish children refugees. A Swedish/Finding movie Mother of Mine. Is pretty heavy but I think describes what those schilderen might have gone through.

[@RvM76]

My grandmother was send to countryside, from Helsinki, when she was child. First -39 and then -41 again.

[@yakkityyak9336]

Love your series! Keep 'em coming!

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks!

[@ericfelegie6371]

I could listen to Anna talk about...anything...anything at all! What an accent!

[@mr.axolotl7727]

I would be fascinated if a somewhat similar episode came out about the soviet industrial and civilian evacuations in 1941. Especially since my grandfather stayed in Moscow and recalled how he would hide in the metro or run around roof tops putting out incendiary bombs with his friends (he was 4 in 1941), and my grandmother was evacuated with her family beyond the Urals

[@WorldWarTwo]

We might get to cover that!

[@fuferito]

I had good friends growing up, two Croatian sisters, whose parents sent them to live with a German family that welcomed them while the former Yugoslavia was imploding, before the whole family immigrated here, in Canada.

[@davidturner7590]

I appreciate how much work goes into producing this sort of thing, and I think you present very well.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thank you! that means a lot!

[@simonminaee370]

I’ve seen many WW2 episodes, but this one makes me feel so sad. Despite the noble efforts of many to protect and care for children, many others had a callous disregard for the innocent and vulnerable. Very sad.

[@WorldWarTwo]

Yes...unfortunately the parts that make you sad are arguably the most important parts of the war.

[@germanhernanburgosffrench-4471]

Great content. Beautiful and cultivated host. Best channel on KZbin!

[@kazu1978xx]

Welcome back

[@TheOldTeddy]

Well done. Someone let that poor girl get some sunshine.

[@gargravarr2]

9:07 Elizabeth:"We know, everyone of us, that in the end all will be well." Isn't there some British book series where the very last words are "all was well"?

[@pabmusic1]

There's a famous poem by Henry Scott-Holland, often used at funerals, that ends "All is well".

[@gargravarr2]

@Skodaman2 Bill Gates is a capitalist. Who's he going to rip off if everyone is dead? Wake up, sheeple!

[@carolpiirto5613]

I love your historical docs. Well done

[@WorldWarTwo]

Thanks @Carol Piirto!

[@sandervr10]

The Home front and The War Against Humanity series are maybe the greatest ideas to make than the war week by week..

[@WorldWarTwo]

We think they complement each other pretty neatly.

[@neilwilson5785]

I've learned a lot. Thanks!

[@WorldWarTwo]

You're welcome!

[@TimMer1981]

The beautiful book and movie "Goodnight Mister Tom" are about these evacuations, highly recommended reading/viewing.

[@docbill224]

I have a neighbor who was evacuated from Berlin. She lived in an Orphanage

[@brandonfields448]

Excellent work Ms.

[@brandonfields448]

Or Mrs.