Study source B & C. Which source is the most useful as evidence about the start of children's evacuation journey? Explain your answer using source B & C and own knowledge from your studies

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Question 1: Study source B & C. Which source is the most useful as evidence about the start of children’s evacuation journey? Explain your answer using source B & C and own knowledge from your studies

Evacuation was the government’s plan to protect women and children from bombings during WW2. The plan came into effect on 31st August 1939, as Britain and its allies prepared to declare war on Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Women and children were evacuated to the countryside and away from industrial areas. Nearly 1.5 million women and children were evacuated from cities.

Although evacuation was a good plan from the government, there were certain problems with placement. Many evacuees were placed with foster parents of a different social class. Upper class children may have been placed with lower class fosterers, and found it hard to adapt. Alternatively, lower class children may have been placed with upper class foster parents, and the parents would have found it hard to come to terms with the new additions to their lives.

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These were minor problems as in fact, evacuation was a success because it saved thousands of lives of British people during WW2 and the blitz. Overall evacuation was one of the British government’s best moves of the whole war.

In source B you can see the children are going off to be evacuated. The children appear to be going to be evacuated along with their parents and teachers. Some parents and teachers would have gone with their children/pupils. Seeing that the children are going with full suitcases and are fully clothed implies that they are middle or upper ...

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