Talk:Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II

comments from article proper

The following is a quote from the article - I moved the question in brackets out of the article to this page. On September 29 [What year, please? This article lacks a proper introduction.] the Government announced plans to evacuate around two million people from London in the event of war. Based on the pre-war reports this was seen as necessary to reduce demoralization and control the "inevitable" panic. Krupo 04:18, Oct 23, 2004 (UTC)

Additionally, and I present a quote from the article just below The Phony War "On September 3, at 11.27, the first air raid siren sounded over London. An unscheduled French aircraft provoked the alert" - This may be in the context of the year given above (1939), however that is in another section and it is therefore ambiguous. I would put in the date I think it is (being 1939), but I'm not sure. --Lor772 01:25, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)--

Garbled sentences

On 17 April 2006 at 3:07 I removed the following two sentences which seem completely garbled. If the content is pertinent, the sentences should be rewritten. --Mikebrand 03:17, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

5/- and her children 3/- each — the mother was expected to provide and prepare food. These sums provoked some turmoil — many middle class householders saw them as villages made organisation very difficult.

Citing and sourcing

Has anyone looked ahte online records of the London Gazette? See here for WW2 records 1939-1948. Im sure there would be something about this in there. Can anyone cite the 1.2million suicides? It seems a bit high. RHB 00:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

I have deleted the claims of 1.2 million suicides. Lester (Psychol Rep. 1994 Dec;75(3 Pt 1):1154. ) and Henderson et al (BMC Public Health. 2006; 6: 167) found that suicide rates in the civilian population increased slightly in 1939-42 (around 9,000-12,000 additional suicides in the years when the war wasn't going well) and declined to half the 1939 level by 1946 (attributed to higher employment and the war going the Allies' way). The total numbers were in the range of a few thousand per year. Certainly nowhere near 1.2 million. The suicide rate was actually higher in 1933, the year unemployment peaked during the Great Depression, that at any time during the war. Dbromage 06:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Similar actions in Germany during WW2

When I read the article I noticed that the de:Kinderlandverschickung (approx. Children evacuation) is virtually the same event during the Second World War in Germany. Maybe there are other nations too that had such actions? How about transforming this into a more general article on that topic (with a shorter article name?) Arnomane 12:04, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

German article looks excellent (includes important UK stuff that Eng-lang article misses!) and deserves to be translated. I'd suggest articles for each country plus unifying article on whole topic of such evacuations - surely they've happened other than during WWII? JackyR | Talk 02:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Language

Reading through this, there seems to be large sections of text that are disjointed or badly written (I think possibly where details have been edited). I may try and do some work on it unless someone else wants to have a go? Spookydel (talk) 15:00, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

more confusing sentences

In the late summer of 1939, the government began publicising its plan through the local authorities. They had an underestimated demand; only half of all school-aged children were moved from the urban areas instead of the expected 80%. There was enormous regional variation of more than 15% of their children, while over 60% of children were evacuated in Manchester and Liverpool. The refusal of the central government to spend large sums on preparation also reduced the effectiveness of the plan

If they expected to move 80% and only moved half, then they had overestimated demand. Not underestimated.Eregli bob (talk) 14:54, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Men of German (and later Italian) origin were interned from May 12, 1940. Many interned were refugees from Adolf Hitler. By July, almost all of these men under seventy were held in military camps, mainly on the Isle of Man. At first, unnecessary mistreatment was common. For many interned persons the conditions in the camps were not especially unpleasant. These conditions were soon reversed.

I wish I could fix them but I don't know what is supposed to be said. Readin (talk) 03:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)