This is an oral history that was published last year in 2020… at least that was the date on the credits. I’m not entirely sure when these interviews were done, since the Pandemic has been going on for almost two years. It was sad to hear some of the stories. The people in this oral history were children during the blitz and survived. Some of them had lost their entire families.. Many had to leave their families and...
Could you even imagine living through this? They interview several people who were teenagers during the Blitz. I love hearing their stories. Watching this and seeing how people suffered, makes me ashamed to complain about anything in life. What was amazing to me was that life went on pretty much as usual during the Blitz. People still worked, went to the movies and lived their lives as best as they could considering their circumstances. After all it was...
I’ve watched a lot of documentaries about the blitz.. But I believe this one is the best. It explains in more detail how people lived their lives during the bombings.. For the most part they still went to work but prepared themselves for tonight we attacks. They had a positive attitude about life, even though their lives were in question on a daily basis. People in the United States have never had to worry about such things..
We are lucky that in the United States we have never really experienced anything like this on this scale….. It’s still true now, your financial status will dictate how you live in a crisis. In my lifetime, the pandemic that we are experiencing now is the closest I have personally been to living in a worldwide crisis.. and being limited. But this pales in comparison to what people in the forties had to endure. I often wonder what...
