Why did the British evacuate the children from the major cities in Britain in ww2?
After the destruction of Guernica by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War it was predicted that any future war would primarily be an air war, and that all cities would be targeted by the enemy. At the outbreak of World War 2 The British expected that the Germans would bomb the cities and Children where evacuated to the countryside. During the so called ‘phoney war’ when nothing happened for several months after the invasion of Poland, lots of these children returned home, only to be evacuated again when the bombing campaign started after the invasion of France. Vegasdj stated that it was primarily the South East that was evacuated because that was where all the bombing was, this is wrong, my dad was evacuated to North Wales from Liverpool. Liverpool was the major port where materials supplied from the U.S.A. was landed and it was heavily hit, indeed some historians have calculated that if you look at bombs dropped per square mile, Bootle in North Liverpool received the heaviest b
