Top 20 Disturbing Facts About Wartime Britain
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- 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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Bombing occurred in all major cities (There's maps of the bombing raid destruction in most central libraries.). My Mother's family were based in Manchester. My Mum (youngest at the time - around 18 months) stayed with her parents. One bombing raid saw her and my Grandma in the only remaining house in the street (their home) while my Grandfather was out with the local fire brigade - he was considered too old to join up (at 47), though he tried 4 times. Re: Operation Pied Piper - When they sent childeren out to the country, some of them were horribly treated. 7 of my Aunts and Uncles were sent out and not a single one talked about the experience. Some said the countryside was pretty (I think one or two got sent to a farm) but not one of them talked about how they were treated or what they did (aside from one Uncle saying angrily "They treated me like a servant").
There's a beautiful church, St. Luke's in Liverpool. It's called the bombed out church. There's a hand painted sign out above the front gates that reads, "At 10 to 4 in the morning with the sound of bombs dropping five bells fell from the tower of St. Luke's and rolled ringing." It's such a beautiful building too. If it were in Canada, it would have been demolished like everything else here that has any resemblance of architectural beauty.
In the 2000s, my old primary school would invite pupils Grandparents to come in and talk about their experiences as being children during the war.
My Grandfather did that 3 times (my oldest cousin, his brother and my sister who were in the same year, and finally me) ❤
He was, thankfully, able to be evacuated to his aunt and uncle
80 years later and our country is unrecognisable 😢
What do you mean
@@kobipro7805I bet it’s a comment about race.
To someone from 1860, the world of 1940 would also be unrecognisable.
Another amazing video, keep up the good work
Like a lot of wartime history programmes there is one heavily bombed city that never gets a mention, and this is because the government supressed all news of it. This news blackout was because it was the major port for receiving war supplies from America as well as holding all of Britain's Gold reserves. If you have not worked it out yet it was the City of Liverpool and the May Blitz, with dramatic loss of life and considerable port damage. To make this known to the test of the country would lower morale greatly so there was a Government clamp down on information.
The biggest environmental damage during WW2 was the dramatic change in farming methods. Hedgerows disappeared as did smaller farms. We had to maximise the use of arable land. Every patch of ground was used for growing food or pigs. Britain never again returned to the prewar method of farming and, to this day, is on an industrial scale. Germans weren’t bombing forests. They were dumping unused payloads on their return journey. Whilst unwelcome, it was not an environmental disaster. “Dig for victory” or “Grow a pig for England” were fantastic wartime posters.
My father was in the Welsh Guards and went to France as part of the BEF forces, he was later evacuated out though not from Dunkirk. He returned as part of the D Day landings. My mother made parts for tanks, my aunts were nurses in London and in Queen Alexandres army nurses, one served in Egypt, and I have a photo of her and two other nurses getting autographs off General Isenhower in Cairo. One uncle grew vegetables on the family farm near Wrexham, other uncles served in various army units, one drove Monty for a while.
I was born in 1945 as part of my mum and dads celebration at the ending of WWII. I joined my father in construction and many projects were repairing war damage as money allowed in the 1960s. In the 1980s I inspected the Underground stations in south London that were built without the joining tube tunnels between them. The still had bunk beds being used as archive shelving. In central London there is the US underground control center another tube station, Isenhower was claimed to sleep there, it's now a museum.
So, both sides of my family did their duty, for my part I took care of a Dunkirk Little Ship for 15 years, to help preserve the memory of those that did not make it back across the channel in 1940. Thanks for posting such an interesting account of WWII.
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
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.
The music is too loud in this video
This is a very dark and depressing video, especially the thumbnail on the right half: that's the darkest scene from "Goodnight Mister Tom", where William (the boy) has been tied up in a cupboard along with his baby sister and left for dead by their mentally-ill highly-religious mother. William survives and is rescued by Tom (his foster father played by John Thaw) but the baby perishes. It's a good drama, I recommend it.
Bit pointless now you've spoiled the entire production
@@chrischarlescookLOL! What exactly did I spoil? It's all right there in the picture, and there's much more to it than that!
@@Foebane72 Err, the plot and ending. Apart from that, nothing.
@@chrischarlescookEvery IMDb page and RT page reveals the basic plot, and I didn't. Nor the ending. And I should point out that there were enough scenes shown from GMT on this video for ANYONE to surmise the general storyline.
@Foebane72 WTF is wrong with you? Clearly spoiled the story. What's the point in recommend it? Jog on.
Im American and I find UK history interesting
Real
Thanks I appreciate your comment.
Same
Because we teach it truthfully and not bury/rewrite it like the US does?
@@Pissedoffdetectiveunfortunately now the UK has gone woke and Britains history is being rewritten for example claiming the B people built Stonehenge
Public parks were dug up and used for food crops. As a result a local park nearby, has a lumpy bumpy area, which was used for crops and saw probably also bombed, due to it being near a railway line. There are also replacement houses in some local roads, due to bombing and for many years there was a dip in one local main road, caused by a WW2 bomb, dropped because a local baker had opened his door, so the pilot of the bomber, saw the light. The bomb missed the bakery, which today is a popular restaurant and hit the road. I live in North West London, in a neighbourhood that was bombed because of its railways and light industry.
It was good to see John Thaw, and foyles war outtakes
I don’t think any of the clips were outtakes, I think they were just regular clips. Why use outtakes in a serious video?
Britain wartime is so interesting Cool and interesting video keep up the work
Same here
In Carrie's War by Nina Bawden the children come to terms with the Gotobeds own insecurities chiefly Hepzibah and Isaac Evans.
A very 21st century view on the effect of war on the British.
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
There was no such thing as antiaircraft rockets during WWII.
Dont know why your making up utter tripe.
@lordeden2732 you can't even type English properly, it's "You're" not your in this context
@@lordeden2732 believe it or not, I did something called research and it was in fact anti-aircraft rockets that were being fired that night. The One Show confirmed it in their piece about it:
"This was a terrible tragedy and ironically, there was non enemy attack, they were our weapons firing, they were new anti-aircraft rockets that had an unfamiliar sound,"
I am Canadian because of the blitz At 13 my granny was shipped here. And her parents were killed.
My father ran Steam Engines through the Blitz. Once over three unexploded bombs that had been sabotaged by the bomb makers. So lived. A high toll on my immediate family & fighting Uncles and my mother. Writing an autobiography on it now. "Stalin Murdered my Mother.'
I remember walking around "old town" Warsaw. It was really strange. All the buildings looked like they should be hundreds of years old but it kind looked like a living museum almost. I wondered what Warsaw would have looked like it had it not been bombed to smithereens.
Warsaw was once such a beautiful city that it was called "The Paris of the East." If you look at prewar pictures of the city, you will see a LOT of lovely buildings. Sadly, 80% of Warsaw was demolished during WW2. However, the people of Warsaw managed to salvage the ruins of some of the beautiful historic buildings and rebuild them, brick by brick!
@@JoMarieM I know. I was told it looks exactly the same as it did before the war and everything was rebuilt. I think Poland is an underrated country. It's really pretty. I've only been to Krakow and Warsaw but both cities were beautiful!
Another interesting, though humourous, fact. A German Uboat torpedoed the Giant's Causeway because the Nazis thought Britain was building a bridge to Ireland.
Funny story but not true of course.
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.
The German navigation system only worked for a time. One of the achievements of the British technology war was the “bending” of German radio signals which the German airforce relied upon to guide them to their targets. Of course, some targets were easy to find, especially London and its docks. The German airforce could easily find the Thames estuary and follow it to London.
The Brits knew about radio direction and allowed Coventry to be bombed , this was done so the Germans didn’t know we knew .
Sound mixing is dreadful
In the first few months of the war more British people died at home from road accidents due to the blackout than soldiers overseas
Womens role in the war. I had a female relative who helped make bombs.
My great nan and her sister worked on spitfires and were lucky on 2 occasions when the Germans bombed the factory
England doesn't mean the UK
I'd love to have asked questions of evacuaees who stayed in the town I grew up in.
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.
Britain lost 40,000 civilinas. Russia lost 15 Million. America? Maybe 20.
Russia signed a pact with Hitler, took half of Poland, invaded Finland & was about to invaded Romania to take the oilfields when the Germans attacked first, the Ukranians & Baltic states welcomed them as liberators & if it hadn't been for the US the Russians would have taken all of Europe
What difference does it make? The war forever changed British society.
Larger countries with larger populations, what’s your point?
Can you do 20 disturbing facts about our country since WW2
Facts! Disturbing no!
Why don't you label the clips you're using? Don't steal other creators' work without crediting them.
Shut up stop being a Karen
Goodnight mister Tom is so good but so depressing. If you haven't seen it I recommend it
The title of the video needs corrected. England and UK do not mean the same thing.
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
How did 'Oppenheimer' have the means to stop anything? The atomic bomb, which was not invented by Oppenheimer alone, by the way, was not available until after the German war had ended.
Nonsense.
This is a rather depressing video. However, Britain and its resources during WW2 were managed to excellent effect. Overall, Britain was spared the vast majority of the horrors in WW2. The British home front is seen as one of the few bright sparks of hope in WW2 (though, as this video accurately highlights, it wasn’t devoid of it horrors).
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 .
Gosh, I guess it's a good thing that humanity decided "never again". Imagine if something even more horrific than the blitz were to happen to a population under a decades-long siege in an open-air concentration camp. That would be just awful! So glad our species learns from its mistakes.
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.
The most powerful video you’ve done
Like the great Winston Churchill says: We shall never surrender. 👊 🏴 And we never did.
I wonder why this has been made now
Probably one of the worst periods in England/British/ UK history probably even worse than the English civil war in 1642-1649
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
never box heads
Not a good memory, never the less reality, Stiff upper lip, I dare say, survival well done, God did save our Queen, ❤️,
It was the king at the time, just as it is now.
The monarch at the time was King George VI.
Ah bless. You seem woke 😂😂
And what was it all for? To support Neo-Nazism in Ukraine.
Russian troll says what?
how boring