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The Blitz spirit (a major figure: Churchill (memories (most inspiring war…
The Blitz spirit
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the Blitz
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the children left to be saved and families from the country side took those who didn't have families
5000 of them slept in Epping Forest on the 7th of September 1940, it was called "Black Saturday"
after this night, 57 more bombings happened in consecutive nights
10th and 11th of May 1941, 1436 people were killed
Memories
historians
Angus Calder
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examined how the German bombings generated ideas and images of plucky and stoical suffering and resistance that defined post-war Britain's sense of itself
apart from the official propaganda there was a inequality and suffering due to deep social divisions, and histories of opportunistic looting and rape
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definition
The “Blitz spirit” is a popular story about the British public during the Second World War, uniting together with defiance and resilience to overcome the threat of invasion from Nazi Germany.