Study source B, C and D and coment on their effectivness

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HISTORY QUESTION 3

Source B is a photograph of firemen and volunteers helping to sack dead bodies in a Girls school in London while Source C is a photograph of a group of people happily posing after a night raid on their homes in front of all of their property. Source D shows the regular civilians and how they dealt with ‘sorting personal property’ in a street after it had been bombed in Coventry.

Source B is very effective in showing the extent of which the damage was done since it is taken in a school that had been bombed. A lot of damage was done as there are not that many schools in any area; they are a reasonable distance from each other. Therefore many children from the area would be attending this local school. That is why the Germans saw it as a major point, as it would stop future generations.

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You can also see rubble from the buildings lying around in the background just as you can in Source D. In some ways Source D is similar to Source B as they were both not alloyed to be published as they show the direct damage caused by the bombs. Source D also supports Source B since it shows the extent of damage inflicted on Britain since it is a photograph that takes in a considerably large area since you can see a large background of rubble in the street. However Source D, unlike Source B, does not display in loss ...

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