Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children?

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Why do sources A to F differ in their attitudes to the evacuation of children?

Sources A to F do differ in their opinion of Evacuation, some give the perception of evacuation as a success while others, believe it to be a failure, I will look at  why they differ in their attitudes and also at why the individual sources were produced.

        Source A shows, what appears to be school children being evacuated, most of the people within the photograph appear to be smiling, however this is unreliable as a view onto their feelings at the time, as it appears that all those taking part in the photograph are aware that they are being photographed, and therefore they would smile towards the camera even if they had been in tears previously, also this photograph may have been produced as a piece of propaganda. This piece although a primary source does not give enough detail, in order to give a general view on the beliefs towards evacuation.

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        Source B is probably more reliable as it is an extract from an interview with a teacher who was present during the evacuations. This source appears to differ from source A as it gives a much more negative view of Evacuation, yet this may be because the source is an extract from an interview, and the interviewer may have asked for the negative point of the evacuation, and also since the piece is a memory is subject to the inaccuracies of this type of source.

        Source C is a very difficult source to judge, the piece is from a ...

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