We’ve still not lost our Blitz spirit! For this list, WatchMojoUK counts down Top 20 Disturbing Facts About Wartime England. We’re looking at the most affecting, destabilizing, difficult and tragic aspects of the World War II era in England. Are there other aspects of life during this period that should also be mentioned? Let us know in the comments.
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Regarding Civil Liberty Restriction. The British Govt went way further than even Nazi Germany in trying to control the Press. Part of the Emergency Defence Act (1939) – Defence Regulation 2D allowed the Home Office immediately and without legal process to ban any newspaper that "undermined the war effort through extensive criticism of the Government ".
Who are to blame for WW2 Germany who caused the carnage and the U.S who had the means (Oppenheimer) to stop the carnage but didn’t but Bombing of Pearl Harbour and they finished the war
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Why don't you label the clips you're using? Don't steal other creators' work without crediting them.
War is always an excuse for governments to enforce authoritarian-style controls on the populace. The same happened in the US during the Civil War.
To be fair, German civilians will have dealt with most (if not all) of these issues – whilst having the Nazis trying to brain wash them.
Will also have been even worse for those in the countries like France and Holland (to name 2) as they were invaded by the Nazis and (technically) again by the allies when they were liberated
In the first few months of the war more British people died at home from road accidents due to the blackout than soldiers overseas
The music is too loud in this video
Britain lost 40,000 civilinas. Russia lost 15 Million. America? Maybe 20.
Who wrote this rubbish? I was expecting civilian friendly fire deaths, internment, the failure to protect Jews from Hitler's holocaust (and the failure to take in Jewish refugees), mass death training exercise incidents (something the Yanks were particularly good at)…
But no. We got "the blitz", the fact soldiers sometimes died…
I'm not saying the horror was worth it, but it did lead the UK to make some choices that it probably wouldn't have otherwise made. Part of me wishes that the US had been similarly devastated so that maybe we'd have certain things that the UK chose to implement after the war.
I was born in 92 and i only had a few family members who were still alive who lived through the blitz but damn i was told some chilling stories. I live in Southampton so we got bombed really badly during the battle of Britain due to the port and because of the supermarine spitfire factory. One such story was told by my nan who recently died who told me when one of her friends was being shot at by a German bomber gunner. Thankfully he survived by zigzagging to dodge the bullets. Another time a bomb landed in her front garden but didn't explode. Until recently a neighbour of mine still had the air raid shelter in the back garden. On rationing my great nan told me that lard was disguised as butter
we shouldnt have bothered fighting. we bankrupted ourselves and lost our empire just to save some ungrateful wankers in europe from hitler. they didnt thank us or offer to chip in for the cost of their salvation – they just held us over a barrel to pay for the EU later and demand a "deal" when we left. the ingratitude was astonishing.
One fact that should have made this list was what happened on 3rd March 1943. In Bethnal Green, East London, a warning of an incoming raid was sounded on the air raid sirens. As people made their way to various shelters, panic ensued as the roar of new and unfamiliar sounding anti-aircraft rockets led to people thinking that bombs were already falling. One of the shelters people were now heading for in panic was a half built London Underground station (which eventually opened to traffic post war in 1946). Hundreds of people ran in panic down a staircase through the narrow surface access. At the bottom of the stairs, a woman carrying a child slipped and fell. This caused a blockade, resulting in people pushing, desperately trying to get to what they perceived to be safety. The resulting human crush killed 173 people, 62 of which were children, it was the worst Civilian disaster of WW2.
The question was why did it happen? Ironically, there was no German Air Raid, the weapons being fired were new anti-aircraft rockets that were being tested. Due to the restrictions imposed during the war, the disaster was completely covered up, so as to not damage national morale. Only in the last 10 years has a proper, visual memorial been unveiled near to the spot where the tragedy took place
The blackout was completely pointless: the Luftwaffe employed radio navigation, which enabled.them to find their way to and from target cities with complete accuracy. The only effect of the blackout was to instil a climate of fear in the population, because "a frightened population is a compliant population"- H.G Wells.
A common goal for Hitler was to break the country's wiil to fight. A lofty goal for him. He really didn't know his enemies ver well. All he did was strengthen the resolve to defeat Hitler and his war machines.
80 years later and our country is unrecognisable 😢
Large numbers of bombs that fell on East London were not from enemy aircraft at all . They were shells fired from guns in Hyde Park aiming to the East where the planes were — none were ever hit. The 'Blitz' was tragically mainly 'friendly fire'. All those shells had to come down somewhere.
Ah bless. You seem woke 😂😂
All 20 Facts I can imagine coming out of Churchill mouth being read. I'm a proud American and honor the UK as a ally .
The British government sent the men to war so many were killed the government brought into Britain thousands of migrants to do the work this was Britain downfall
Our grandfathers would be so proud to die for a bunch of snowflakes that can’t even decide what a woman is or what kind of perverted sex they like this week ! I’m sure they are up there now so proud they died for a country that just gave itself away to immigrants in the end anyway
never box heads
WatchMOJO UK No thanks as not a slow dumb reactor from over the Pond in La La Land …..Lapping up this shit and shite posted by what sounds like Dad/Mum of Cats
WW2 "losers" are strong and wealthy. What actually Britain won?
Brexit was partly voted for by children of WW2 participants, hatred of Germans passed down a generation, or two.
Facts! Disturbing no!
During the blitz Churchill would flee London ánd would have regular artillery shells (not flak) fired into the air which would just come back down and contributed greatly to the destruction
And what was it all for? To support Neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
Like the great Winston Churchill says: We shall never surrender. 👊 🏴 And we never did.
"demonizing the enemy" ? when the enemy is Hitler and the Nazis how much "demonizing" is required.
Yes, with the relentless bombing of our cities, Hitler tried to break our morale. But he failed. Today we have another dictator who is bent on doing the same thing. His name? One, Vladimir Putin (the devil in disguise).!
Goodnight mister Tom is so good but so depressing. If you haven't seen it I recommend it
Can you do 20 disturbing facts about our country since WW2
Its amazing if you go to lincolnshire how many current RAF bases and diused bases there are. The county was central to bomer command, and the mass building of these airfeilds changed the face of the countryside forever. It's amazing how many of the roads around the county are actually tarmacked over access roads and runways of old airbases, for example former RAF Metheringham near Lincoln. Really incredible history.
In Carrie's War by Nina Bawden the children come to terms with the Gotobeds own insecurities chiefly Hepzibah and Isaac Evans.