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AMERICAN REACTS TO WW2 GERMANY B0MBING THE UK! 😢
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Watch until the end BEFORE giving opinions pls. This is a pretty serious and sad topic. Thanks for watching! All love ✊🏾💕
Oh and as for us. m.ruclips.net/video/BifLPGi4X6A/видео.html
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Eventually, bomber command of the royal airforce flattened most German cities by the end of the war. Here is an operational to a German target in 1944. m.ruclips.net/video/riW4ordaIq8/видео.html
I truly don’t understand why people would be disrespectful to you for not knowing things when you’re making an effort to learn.
The reason Germany wasn’t nuked was because the bombs weren’t invented until the end of the war and sabotage in Norway as well as luck might be the reason Germany didn’t invent them first. Germany was also defeated before Japan and the US didn’t join the war until the attack on Pearl harbour.
What can annoy me a bit though understandable and not something I can really criticise you for is when you make comments based on limited knowledge having seen before you were wrong and admitting your thoughts change after learning.
Mainly when you in some way defended the US school system since you hadn’t chosen to learn about history in high school. It differs for every country, but in Norway we choose multiple of our subjects when reaching our equivalent to high school, but we’ve learned this by then. It’s fine that you don’t know and I admire your willingness to learn, but before answering critique on your school system compared to others it would be nice if you looked at the system we’re comparing it to.
Also the monarchies shouldn’t exist thing did kind of hurt my feelings being proud of our king and if you’re interested in finding out more I can link some of the speeches (with English subtitles of course) he’s made over the years making the country feel more connected and have made me proud of him representing us. Since he focuses on the people and not the politics.
ehh i not particularly agree with u on the booing stuff
You didn't drop the atom bomb on Berlin because you didn't have a working one until after Germany had surrendered. I have known many Germans. They are not Nazis anymore - in fact they are some of the nicest people you could meet. It is not fair to condemn them now for the sins of their parents and grandparents.
Thank you :D
I think you mean anyone’s ancestors don’t forget that the allied commited more war crimes not just in ww2 but look at the indians and the USA
@@pizzacutter5469 I agree with you there, that is what I've always thought.
My Grandad was a English soldier in WW2. He always said he was never mad at the German soldiers or people. It was a political. The German people were also victims in Hitlers genocide mission.
Yes agree with you on that every German I've met now a days are really nice and friendly and ashamed of there past it's time to forget and move on as long as we as humans learn for it and make sure it never happens again x
“Why did y’all* not fight back?” Oh, we fought back alright. Britain returned the bombing compliment once the tide of the war turned. (See also the Battle Of Britain when the RAF prevented the Luftwaffe paving the way for German invasion of the U.K.). Berlin was bombed flat, with huge loss of life, and while at that time we had no nuclear option, the orthodox (and some would argue, needless) bombing of Dresden reportedly claimed more lives than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Most famously there were the ‘Dambuster’ raids which sought to breach three dams that fed German industry, destroying it and all in the path of the flooding. Brave men on a potentially suicidal mission - many did not return - and interesting technology to achieve their aims, but causing catastrophic losses and damage. Worth looking up.
*British people are genetically programmed to be unable to say ‘y’all’ without sounding totally ridiculous.
E.g. the dambusters
Dont forget the firebombing of Dresden.
@@sanguinemde5031 I mentioned that in my original comment.
@@ianpark1805 Oh we did !!
I meant stalin
The queen did actually contribute in the war, I think she worked as a mechanic or something
Ambulance driver? I think? Maybe that was Margaret
She was a member of the women’s land army and was a mechanic
HM was a mechanic did you know! And she served our country !! She is our wonder woman!!
@@sianne79 She was a truck driver/mechanic.
She was 13 when war broke out at 18 in 1944, she insisted upon joining the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) Was the women's army, she trained as a mechanic.
Great video. This is why people from Britain take the piss out of America being late to the war because America wasn’t in the war at this point and this was when we needed help the most.
Lol late to both World Wars!
But that's how they became a super power.
I meant eastern front for the Soviets.
It was the USSR which was mainly responsible for the defeat of Nazi Germany.
You can understand America not wanting to get involved at the time but they made a fortune out of Britain selling us supplies . And they also could see Britain's end as a world power which they could capitalise on .
I wouldn't say there is tension between Germany and the UK. The chants you hear and the booing of the national anthem at football matches I would consider to fall under "football banter". No rational or sane person from the UK has any grudge or animosity towards modern-day Germany. They are our ally.
The chants are one thing, but booing the national anthem is just pure bad manners.
@@alicemilne1444 thats football hooliganism for ya
@@alicemilne1444 That's UK banter for you lol, other countries just don't understand it
@@Dom-fx4kt I am from the UK and I find the English booing habit uncouth.
Well, I hesitate to say aly now they're in the EU!
I'm no royalist, but to be fair to the queen, she served in the forces during the war, she worked on army cars as a mechanic I think?
the then princess elizabeth joined the auxiliary forces the moment she turned 18, most of her male cousins and uncles actualy fought not to mention her mother (the then queen) who refused to evacuate with the princesses to canada in order to boost the morale of people. you do not have to like them but the royal family do serve their people
Yes
@@legolasdbk her mother, the Nazi sympathiser?
Very complicated situation there.
@@legolasdbk Her father, George VI also fought in the War of Jutland...
The King at the time (the Queen’s father) actually insisted the family stay in London during the Blitz so that they could be with their people.
The King and Queen stayed in London ,whilst the princesses were young they were in Windsor Castle much of the time .
England Fans didn’t boo the national anthem because of ww2 they booed bc they could win against us for the longest time and are salty at lol
And this is the truth🤝 We hadn’t beat Germany in the knockout stages of any tournaments since we last won the World Cup in 1966.
Of course the history of the wars just adds to that rivalry and there are songs about it.
It’s coming home🏴🍻
Nevermind mate, maybe next time. Enjoy your time at home twiddling your thumbs whilst we go win the Euros. 💪
Germany paid the price for the blitz, they were virtually raised to the ground, Dresden was incinerated.
And it was also rebuilt extremely quickly. Berlin Air lift?
@@dirkbogarde44 Not to the same standards, though, it was basically brutalist afterwards.
there’s no tension lol, it was just a tense football match and it’s all physiological
Other comments from yesterday's vid said otherwise 😬😅
@@FavourInternational Uk and Germany have a really good political relationship now, germany has paid for the infrastructure loss and been punished enough now for what has happened. Although awful what has happened, the uk and germany have some of the highest economy’s in europe/world now and it’s just the football hooligans who are very nationalistic and can’t accept other countries etc. Hope this helps :D
Yeah some will think about WW2 but most of it was to get into the Germans heads and help us ein
They really boo at boxing, it’s to mess with their minds, I don’t particularly like it during national anthems but that’s all it is.
I’m assuming you mean psychological? It isn’t that either though, anyone who think boo’ing a national anthem does anything other than make the other team more determined is a fool.
I don't have a problem with Germans. The way I see it, there is no real excuse for booing their anthem. "Some" fans will be petty due to having lost to Germans so much in football, and also being drunk too doesn't help.
TY. I am german born 1971 and i think , hmmm yes proudly (!) we earned some respect in the times after ww2. booing our national anthem is just very bad manners.
I think the problem is, it is the same melody as in nazi times, but its is a differnt text. But nearly noone knows that.
And about the bombing of civil targets we taught you everything and you learned and gave it back. point. I wish Britain would have been better !!!!! But i understand it.
@@matthiaskellner9331 I agree with the booing was very bad manners.
Always found British to be salty fans
Relaxe The war was 80 years ago The war is over
Greetings from Germany Europe
Yeah i dont know anyone that hates germans. The past is the past.
What did your grandparents do during the war Hannes?
dirkbogarde44 my grandmothers worked in agriculture at home. my mother's father was a simple soldier in the armed forces, if I remember it correctly truck driver france / russia my father's father was in the waffen ss Abteilung totenkopf head of a tank reconnaissance unit in france / poland / russia after the war one was with the railroad and the other head of a small company
We still find bombs that haven’t exploded yet today, I remember getting evacuated from a skatepark near a beach in Scotland because there was a bomb around about
It happens in Spain too, and our Civil War was earlier, 1936-39
@@Krokostad not me or my landlady, they found a 1000lb bomb and we were asked to evacuate, both of us declined. They told us the bomb was in pristine order and could have gone up anytime.
"Where were we at?" Yeah we were wondering that too 😋. American doesn't join the war for another 2 years when Pearl Harbor is attacked.
They didn't come into WW1 until quite late too.
@@joyridgway6398 The only wars America isn't late for are the ones they start themselves 😋
@L M Canada, Russia and Britain are the main countries who "saved" the world. America just joined because of Japan. If Japan never attacked them they would probably have pulled a Switzerland
The idea behind this was to break the spirit of the UK but it had the opposite effect the British fought back harder
The royal family were told to evacuate Buckingham palace and England but the king said he wouldn’t abandon his country and people and the queen said she’s wouldn’t abandon the king and that if she wasn’t going neither were her daughters, in fact the queen and princess Elizabeth (future queen) worked and helped the allies a lot during the war. The queen made clothes and other materials for the forces and the then princess Elizabeth was a mechanic. Pretty awesome family tbh 👍
Also during the daylight bombing of London in 1940, the Luftwaffe targeted Buckingham Palace with directions they had received from the Duke of Windsor. Buckingham Palace was badly damaged and on one occasion King GeorgeVI narrowly missed being killed when bombs exploded outside the window of the room he had been in.
Different countries use their national anthems in different ways. The Queen is a symbol: she represents the people and the country not just one woman and so, when we say 'God Save the Queen', we are referring to what she represents - Great Britain. The Royal Family did not leave London during the war; our current Queen, a young princess at the time, was a motor mechanic in the army. Buckingham Palace itself was bombed and our Queen's mother, also called Elizabeth, said she was almost relieved, '....because now I can look the East End in the face.' She and her husband, King George, spent a lot of time visiting the East End of London and comforting the people amidst their ruined homes.
As to the booing, I am really ashamed that the fans did this. England has been beaten so many times by Germany that I think they were desperate that it shouldn't happen again and tried every dirty trick, like attacking them through their national anthem before the game started. I don't think it was anything to do with the war. My parents had no bad feelings towards the Germans even though my father fought in WW2 and my mother was heavily bombed in Portsmouth. Everyone else I knew as I grew up felt the same and just shrugged it off as 'history'. This is a new and nastier element coming from a much younger generation.
There's a really good film from the War called Know Your Ally: Britain. It was made by the American War Office for US Troops being sent to the UK to help them understand us. Now of course the UK has changed since 1945 but a lot of the observations about how we're alike and different remain true, plus it's free to watch on RUclips. I highly recommend it. 🙂 🇺🇸🇬🇧
I'll look into the copyrights for it! If all's good, I'll react!
It's brilliant!
What's completely forgotten, is that there were coal miners working 12hr shifts... underground, throughout the war, keeping the country warm, and providing electricity. My grandfather worked in a mine 8 miles away from the huge steelworks in Sheffield which was constantly bombarded by the Germans. Yet not even a mention, never mind a medal.
Hi Favour, there is no animosity between BRITAIN AND GERMANY anymore. The football was just banter. The Germans know that, we flattened their cities too. The USA didn't come into the war until December 7th 1941. When the JAPANESE bombed PEARL HARBOUR. They didn't nuke Germany because the nazis surrendered in May 1945. The USA had no nukes then. The Japanese fought on until America developed the first nukes which were dropped on HIROSHMA and NAGASAKI.
GREAT REACTION 🌟👍🏴
Interesting fact is that USA is the only Country to use a nuke on people....innocent people in a war they werent directly involved in. Is that taught in their schools?
@@stephpick justified though
@@mubbles1066 not really.
Maybe a bit, but they could have at least apologized for it
@@manwithapan1294 Next level Travis Scott shit after 1 million dead... I don't think the relatives of those 1 million care about ab apology
That's why Winston Churchill was so important in rallies the country to never surrender
The UK did the same to German cities with the civilian casualties being 10 times higher. It got even worse when America joined the war. Germany was bombed into submission, as some people say.
You should react to “The fallen of WW2”. Really puts into perspective how devastating the war was
Definitely she be so shocked of the numbers of both ww1 ww2 was combined
In fairness the queen who was a princess at the time actually helped with the war effort along with the people being a mechanic.
The first nuke was made after Germany were knocked out and it was only Japan left
If what happened to Great Britain is terrible for you, I advise you to watch the losses of Poland or Yugoslavia.
Education here is good at providing info on alot of world events including world war 2, most people don't get taught that we (UK) bombed German civilians at a crazy higher rate than the Germans done to us way more Germans died to airstrikes than Brits.
Only after the uk was bombed
Yes but in Germany propaganda was big so not everybody even realise truth about concentration camps etc. Anyway Hitler needed to be stoped and Germany start this war but i dont think anybody have problems with Germany now. The buu and stuff is just a part of footbal 🤷♂️. Even in Poland that was affected badly.... two times in two wars, and betraid after war for Rusia, nobody thinking bad about current generation.
The Nazis were the aggressors
@@samuelowens641 that's a bad excuse
@@weeddegree uk started bombing civilians especially
The Queen (a princess then) worked as an army medic during the war, our Queen is badass 😁
Mechanic, not medic
Mechanic
The booing was an utterly shameful moment. Kinda spoiled the game for me. We didn't boo their anthem during the 1966 World Cup final, and the difference was that pretty much the entire crowd then had witnessed the blitz first hand, and many had fought in ww2. Utterly graceless behaviour
@Daniel Barton wtf is a "proper football fan" supposed to be???
Football rivalry as much as anything else.
Every rivalous football match has loads of booing, from Spurs V Arsenal, Liverpool V Everton to England V Scotland.
There may be an element of historical bitterness in there from some, but mostly it's because it's Germany and they win everything.
And they beat us (until this year!).
@@grandtheftmanualv945 that doesn't make it right a national anthem means alot to a country and to boo it is just disgraceful
Honestly don't think about the war when it came to the England v Germany match.
55 years it took us to beat them again and the countless times they broke our hearts we finally did it.
🦁🦁🦁
I agree, the only reason why we boo is because the only time we have ever beaten Germany (West/East/Unified) was in 1966 in the finals of the World Cup
Buckingham palace was also bombed the royal family stayed in London throughout the blitz
Buckimgham palace is in london
@@oa_games2234 yes the royal family live in London
The Queen is a real living representation of the country we don't need a pledge of allegiance it's assumed that we are loyal this proved that we don't need one
people booing is not supported by all fans, but England fans have booed other national anthems during football matches even if the opponent hasn't done much historically to them. It's just to intimidate the opposition players i guess
Both sets of my grandparents lived in a place called Canning Town in the East end of London which was heavily bombed. They had friends killed, houses blown up and my Grandad and his mum were shot at while going to an air raid shelter by a Nazi Plane. My Grandparents used to play in the bombed out terraced houses and they could run straight through each one. Different times
My family came from Bethnal Green and Whitechapel. They experienced the same thing, my great great grandfather Samuel Baker was killed during a bombing raid on the 9th of December.
Our homes don’t usually have basements. During the Blitz many Londoners sheltered from the air raids in the London Underground stations.
The phrase “Keep Calm and Carry On” was circulated a lot at this time, and this is what embodies “Blitz Spirit”
During the bombing the King and Queen actually stayed in Buckingham Palace (which was bombed 3 times itself) and that was huge morale booster (compare it to US Presidents hiding at even the tiniest of threats). When you have a figure like that who serves for life they come to symbolise the national spirit so actually the anthem was tbh even more effective than had it been about people. And we had war songs to stir that kind of national spirit anyway.
The pictures of them in the middle of rubble really are amazing!
Well said 👏👏
Agree to disagree 😊
@@FavourInternational Don't get me wrong I feel like The Star Spangled Banner sounds more like an anthem and ours more like a hymn (unless it's got like a massive orchestra) but it's probably also a thing about growing up knowing who these people are your whole life
@@FavourInternational Btw if you want to react to a national song that's used for the purpose you're describing I'd recommend Rule Britannia (especially the 2009 version from the BBC Proms)
Children were sent to stay in the countryside during the war from the cities. Sometimes to relatives, mostly to strangers, many stayed there through the war. There was a long time at the start of the war when not much happened. During this time my grandfather's parents brought him back to London. Which meant a weird childhood, as he lived through not only the bombings, but for a while being one of the only children in his area. Over time, more children trickled back and eventually school restarted (when he first came back all the schools were in the countryside where most of the children were!)
And then the Germans started sending V1s and V2s
My town in Kent still finds unexplored bombs from ww2. When German aircraft were leaving British air space they’d drop bombs randomly to go faster apparently
same in Dresden
That large raid on Coventry produced a new verb - "Coventrate" which means "to devastate by heavy bombing". I lost a great-uncle and his wife in that raid. They were sheltering in the basement of a pub , but it took a direct hit. All the people in that basement were killed by the bomb.
Wait till she hears about kristallnacht
Fr
17:00 This is the reason why we have may patriotic songs. Some talk about the queen, some about the land, and some about the people. One football chant even talks about the Royal Air Force shooting down German planes (to the tune of 10 green bottles).
The King at the Time decided to stay in London despite the bombing as he was with the people. Both King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Consort stayed in London to show support for the people suffering. The Leader of Germany at the time even commented saying the Queen Consort was the most dangerous woman alive.
The King and Queen visited Plymouth to boost morale but stayed longer than intended - they got caught in a raid and had to spend the night in a rail tunnel. Churchill was particularly moved when he came to the city and saw the destruction.
The effects of this war were felt on Britain for generations, even back in the 80s you could go around parts of Liverpool that were still rubble from the war.
I know that you don't do these kind of videos because you get some nasty comments, but it really does baffle me how you don't know this stuff already. I'm not blaming you for that, I'm just surprised and a little appalled at how inward-looking the education system is in America.
We didn't nuke Germany because we didn't have nukes at this point (they were only developed towards the end of the war and only by the Americans, thank God) and the reason you guys weren't helping is because you stayed out of the war and sold oil and supplies to both sides to make lots of money. Actually, towards the start of the war, many American citizens wanted the US to join Germany's side, but opinion shifted over time.
I actually live in Coventry. Born and raised. We still have remains from the Blitz standing today that I walk past every time I’m in town. I’m used to seeing it now, but sometimes you just go into the remains of big buildings that used to stand and you’re just like, holy shit man. Look what they did to us….It’s insane rlly
My great aunt who also lives in Coventry was born in 1938, and saw these bombs. She was only 2. I’m surprised she survived, however a lot of British children were sent away to the countryside during bombings to protect them and their familes stayed in the city to help work, and fight. I wish I could ask her, but her dementia makes it hard for her to recall.
We had radar and could see the planes coming. When the air raid sirens sounded everyone went into the air raid shelters and stayed there - all night. Many London UndergrounD stations were used as air raid shelters.
England just have a history of losing to German in major football competitions. That is why they boo them
This was my childhood, one million seven hundred thousand people in London were made homeless during the war. I was at a school were they bombed the playground and then machine gunned the children left there, yet I knew German POW's and was friendly with them. Yet I did not feel guilty when the RAF returned to bomb Germany later in the war. I stood there at times and watched air armadas fly over and the engine noise would shake your body.
Have a look at the video from the war regarding the American B17 and the German fighter pilot who instead of shooting down the crippled plane actually saved, escorted and the B17 landed safely and the German pilot turned around and went back to Germany. It’s a real eye opener
You should watch "the battle of Britain 13 hours that saved Britain" its a great documentary.
As an ex soldier myself im very proud of what we achieved in the end. A tiny place defeated them even thou the rest of europe couldnt without our spirit. The Germans out numbered our airplanes massively. A guy named Reginald Mitchell from my town designed the Spitfire plane and it went into mass production. America then got involved and our combined air defence out numbered them. The war was won in the air really and the factories that made the aircraft. My grandfather was taken by the Germans aged 14 and put on a prisoner of war camp. He was Polish. He escaped and lied about his age to join the army and lived. Came to live in England and thats how my family exist. Our national football teams rivalry mainly comes from the world wars and is also a big factor in our special relationship with America. We both f***ed them up. Amen!
Also families did build basic shelters in their gardens but in london the subways were used as shelters.
The National Anthem at the time of WWII was God Save The King NOT Queen as Queen Elizabeth II was still a Princess at this time and was working as a mechanic to aid the war effort, Queen Elizabeth did not ascend to the throne until 1952 after her father King George VI died.
The blitz in 1940 was nothing compared to the allied strategic bombing camping over Germany
Yes; we didnt have to put up with Goring kaking everything up.
True, the nazi’s made a bad choice dropping bombs over London. every action has a reaction.. Dresden was the choice
I live just outside of Birmingham and there’s place called Shell Corner, because the Germans bombed us in WW2 because it was a very industrial town.
And Spitfire Island In Birmingham! Thts where the factory for spitfires were made, in Castle Bromwich. The monument on the island is an amazing piece of art.
And it annoys me that when other citizens from other countries has an opinion, it doesn’t really include anything apart from London, Birmingham and slightly Liverpool and the docks.
But Coventry was practically flattened 😓
There's so much that happened throughout WW2 - I would be down for u reacting to several more vids on what else happened, how & why it all happened, etc. Don't worry about the people getting pissy at u getting stuff wrong or not knowing much - you're learning bit by bit, it's very interesting and you're always providing great entertainment 💕
Also the Great Fire of London was in 1666 - at the time, many houses were made with lots of wood. A small fire which started out in a bakery quickly spread to engulf about a quarter of urban london at the time
Other also, u mentioned the Queen (Tho I understand and agree with what u said about the National Anthem), Queen Elizabeth II actually worked as a mechanic during the war - she drove ambulances aswell around the time of the Blitz. At that time, she was Princess Elizabeth
Love your history reactions. Informative. Keep up the good work.
The London Underground was used as a shelter during the war. Many had Anderson shelters in their gardens
My experience of when WW2 British servicemen meet WW2 German servicemen they are mutually friendly. It was a long time ago and neither had much chance to do anything other than fight for their respective country.
We did use bunkers namely the London Underground, Anderson shelters which were essentially tin sheds buried in your back garden or if you had no garden you can get a cage, stick it under the table and you hid underneath it and prayed
They wanted my homecountry Norway because sweeden sent Germany steel via Norway.
1st great fire of London was in 1666. The fires burned so hot that a diarist at the time wrote that the roads ran with rivers of lead from all the church roofs that were burned down.
Great reaction vid, TAG! Just to clear up one of your queries, the reason why the narrator descrjbed that horrific night of bombing as "the second great fire of London" is because the first one occured in 1666. It is a well-known incident in English history. Check it out in Wikipedia.
I like your content.
I agree with others here that there's no real animosity between British and German people, a lot of it is just joshing and humour. But I do feel uncomfortable about the booing the national anthem: most British people wouldn't do this.
And yes, the WW2 generation were our golden generation (my grandparents' generation) - I revere them for their courage and stoicism. Homes destroyed, husbands, sons, brothers called up and fighting overseas, food rationing and shortages, constant raids and lack of sleep, women called up to work in factories and agriculture, never knowing if you were going to survive the day, children evacuated from cities to rural areas and parents being separated from them for months or even years, people (especially British Jewish people) living in terrible fear of invasion.
We owe them a debt that can never be repaid.
My mothers older cousins who were between 9 and 13 years old were evacuated from London during the blitz but ran away from the safe areas and made their way back to London and joined there friends as a gang who went out at night fighting fires and rescuing people from the burning buildings , they became known as the dead end kids of the blitz
My home town of Sunderland was hit pretty hard by the blitz, it was a big ship building town. My late grandather was in a shelter in lodge terrage, sunderland when a german bomber got a direct hit and the roof collapsed, huge loss of life. He never spoke about it.
for the question about basements: we didn't tend to shelter in our homes, but in anderson shelters. they were corrugated metal shelters with an arched roof, dug into the ground and with dirt packed against the sides. people had them in gardens or there were public ones. there's a public shelter in the imperial war museum (or, there was about 16 years ago) for people to go in. when i went there with my school, they played air raid sounds so we could get a feel for what it was like. if folk couldn't get to one of the anderson shelters, they'd go to underground train stations when the sirens started, which i seem to remember something about the councils not liking. things like gas masks were also common, because during world war I, a lot of the deaths were due to gas and no one was prepared for it.
also, kids were evacuated to the countryside to avoid their deaths, in case anyone's worried. parents put their kids on trains with name tags and belongings and they were basically fostered by people who were in safer areas. obviously, not all kids were evacuated--my grandparents weren't--but a lot were. i think it was mostly the larger cities where it was common, since the smaller towns weren't as much of a target. media like the chronicles of narnia and goodnight mister tom show this; we watched the goodnight mister tom film when we were learning about WWII in my school and the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe opens with the kids being evacuated.
i always found the reaction to the air raids from the UK to be interesting so i remember just this.
My grandfather used to tell me about the war i asked him once why the golf course across the road was so bumpy and he explained that during the war when he was a child there was Heavy Anti Air emplacements built in to the old golf bunkers and were dotted all across the village and up the hill next to it and he even kept the old Blackout boards for all the windows in our old wash house
During the blitz my maternal grandfather was a greengrocer. He was too old to be called up but as one of the few drivers in the village (he lived about 12 miles west of Cardiff) and along with a teacher they were emergency ambulance drivers, a bomb was dropped on the next village, no military target, but Grandad was called out to ferry the injured 8 miles north to a hospital in the Rhondda valley. The weather was so bad and headlights were shielded that one had to drive and the other had to walk in front to guide. Those of us in the know realise why there is a gap in the street with a corresponding missing house number.
Some people had bomb shelters in their gardens. Many in London went into the London Underground when the air raid sirens went off, as that was an underground space. So there were many nights that people slept there with their neighbours. And many times that they went there in the middle of the night and nothing happened. Other times, many died.
my gran's house was bombed, she was a teenager and had to live without a roof. the shops that were bombed hung signs up saying were still open just a little more than normal
You are charming! Thank you for the video and bringing attention to this with your peers.
When we sing God save the Queen, you have to remember; The Queen is Great Britain.
The PEOPLE are great Britain. I think this is where or nationalisms/ mindsets differ. 🤷🏽♀️
Oh wait I think I misinterpreted. You're using queen as a "pronoun" for country?
The Queen IS The United Kingdom.
What she stands for and who she is.
When she visits another country, it is Britain, visiting.
This is all symbolism, of course, but the idea is that she represents us at every turn and with her every waking breath.
Theoretically.
I live in Portsmouth a naval port and there's a region of the city we call old Portsmouth because that was all that was left of the original city after the bombings the rest of the city had to be rebuilt
I live near the Thames Estuary and on a clear day I can see the Anti Aircraft Forts and Southend Pier was classed as a warship and called the HMS Leigh.
My Mum was bombed in her house in Liverpool thankfully survived and my Dad was wounded in the ankle in North Africa in 1942 and had problems all his life, neither of them expressed any animosity to Germans after the war, they just got on with life.
Great Fire of London 1666. Enjoyed your commentary. Keep up the good work
Just subbed to your channel, I love the content. Wow its a small world I live in Barking.. I was surprised hearing you have family here. I'm born and raised in Barking 👌💯
The extra credits video on the Berlin Airlift shows a beautiful counterpoint to the blitz. Can def recommend for a reaction.
I went to Germany, absolutely terrified. Only to find German people were delightful, hospitable, and generous.
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I did too but I went west Germany my uncle was based there
They tried to kill my granny
We did ‘meet them in the air’ - I recommend a video on the Battle of Britain - and retaliated with bombing campaigns later on. The allied attack on Dresden was horrific.
my city was bomed (plymouth) due to navy stuff, when you look at pictures of the town before and after, the whole center of the city there was absolutely nothing left. Heck decades later they still occasionally dig up unexploded ones
like we still have a huge bombed out church in the middle of the city roundabout, a stark reminder of what happened
you have to remember Germany did not declare war on us the UK declared war on Germany once we did that you would expect them to come after us , Churchill asked the US for help several times and was turned down , you only came in after Pearl Harbour was attacked in December 41/ Germany had a far advanced army and weapons ,
I live in Bristol and it was completely flattened. It used to be a medieval town and all that was destroyed. We still have old buildings with bomb damage and bullet holes
No, the boos are certainly not justified. The players of both England and Germany have nothing to do with the atrocities that occured during WW2. Booing national anthems is and always will be very disrespectful
I live in Sheffield. Our Cathedral is still in two halves because of the Blitz. The newer half that was rebuilt and the old half that survived.
The comparison to 9/11 was quite good. But imagine 9/11 happened every week. And they still didn’t defeat us.
Norway had a lot of iron
My late grandmother was blasted across the living room during the blitz. Later her younger (and she admitted to me favourite) brother was killed in North Africa. The neighbours were a Jewish family...who lost lost ALL their continental relatives in the camps. She WOULD not have approved of the booing however.
The city of Hull was the most severely damaged city in Britain with about 90-95% of all houses were destroyed and half the city , leaving over half the population around 150,000 people homeless. Which is just mental
Hull, in news reports of the time, was only referred to as "a Northern Town". It's amazing just how much of the historic beauty of the old town remains despite the Luftwaffe's efforts.
It's also pleasing to know the city has a memorial to civilian deaths. As far as I know, the only one in the country. They are also trying to preserve the last surviving WWII civilian bomb site, the old theatre on Beverly Road.
No no no, you got it all wrong. The English weren't booing the national anthem of Germany. They were saying Boo-urns
My mum was born in 1941, under the stairs of her parents house in Salford, in the middle of an air raid. My Grandad was a fire watcher, dancing on the top of his factories roofs whilst trying to make sure the incendiaries did not burn his workplace down. When he went to work my gran had not gone into labour, and when he came home from work, grandad had quite a surprise when he discovered he had a second baby daughter.
I'm from Belfast my gran remembers running and falling into broken glass carrying her we brother trying to get to bomb shelter
King George VI refused to leave London, even survived Buckingham Palace being bombed! He walk the bombed streets on many occasions. His bravery and courage reinforced the Spirit and determination of the UK and Commonwealth. Long Live the King/Queen is absolutely correct.
Special bomb shelters were built. People had personal ones in gardens or in the house and their were public ones too. The air raid siren would sound when bombers were spotted and people would rush into these shelters. They also blacked out their windows and extinguished any light including street lights so that the planes would have a much harder job finding their target. The children in major cities and key bombing sites were also evacuated to live with volunteering families in the country so were separated from their own families for months.
Anyone critising you is lame af. You're trying to learn, and in every video you do, I learn something new too and I'm from England. Much respect from the UK.
The King and Queen of England at the time refused to leave London, they went to places that got bombed and spoke to the people. Buckingham Palace was hit.
They wanted Norway for access to iron ore in Sweden!
Who were neutral !?
To This day we still dig up unexploded bombs, still viable weapons. It's the same story in germany. Once arch enemies now firm allies🇬🇧🇩🇪