Evacuation was a Great Success
There are many factors, which contribute to whether or not evacuation
was a success. One major factor is the number of lives that were saved
due to evacuation. We now know that if evacuation had not taken place,
a lot more people would have been killed in the Blitz (only were
actually killed). However, we also know that there were cases of abuse
('I had bruises from my neck right down to my ankles on both sides and
on my left hip all my clothes were stuck to my hip where it was
bleeding' John Abbot) and children being used for slave labour etc
because the host families were not checked, and this is obviously a
major failure.
Evacuation was intended to save lives, nothing else. Nevertheless,
there was a lot more to evacuation than intended. For example, the
government did not take into account the social impact evacuation
would have, or the possibility of long-term trauma for some children.
The sources show different experiences and interpretations of
evacuation.
Taken at face value, source B implies that evacuation was a success
because it shows the evacuees in high spirits, as do sources D and H.
We know that the government were responsible for producing sources D
and H, but source B could have been produced by anyone. However, it is
possible that it was taken by the government to use as propaganda to
persuade parents to evacuate their children, as it was not compulsory
for children to be evacuated. Parents were not convinced about
evacuation at the time because they were not given any information
about where their child would be staying, or even whom they would be
staying with. Therefore,...
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...umatised for the rest of their lives. Children felt rejected, as
shown in source F, and there was so much stereotyping of evacuees that
the government were issuing propaganda (sources B, D and H) and host
families seemed to be forever complaining about 'dirty evacuees'
(sources A, E and G).
I do not believe that evacuation was neither a success nor a failure,
simply because there were so many different situations that children
found themselves. Many of the problems were caused by a lack of host
families, which is something the government should have looked into
before they started to move children. For example, Wokingham RD was
expecting just over 3000 evacuees, but they received almost 6500,
which would obviously create a shortage of host families. However,
evacuation did save lives, and this was its main intention.
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