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"Evacuation was a great success" Discuss using the sources and your own knowledge
In this essay I will be using the sources and my own knowledge to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this statement and will then formulate my own opinion as to whether I agree or disagree with it. The first children were evacuated on the 31st August 1939. More followed between the 1st and 3rd of September until in all almost one and a half million people were evacuated by the government into the countryside.
The sheer logistics of the operation were huge. Source A shows this, as a huge number of children had to be transported to the countryside and then provided with shelter once they arrived. The photograph provides evidence of how the government went about this; it shows the children being marched out with their suitcases and gas masks on the way to the station with their teachers. The fact that the government managed to achieve this in such a short period of time was indeed a success.......

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