Did anyone else watch the real Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley last night?

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Over the last year we’ve been told more than ever that we need to find our Blitz Spirit and Keep Calm and Carry On etc, only for this programme to blow the whole thing apart and reveal it was actually one great big myth put out by the government to try and boost morale. Propaganda basically. There was no ‘Blitz Spirit’ and its just a made up narrative that’s pushed on us by the media and the establishment for the last 80 years.

If you didn’t watch it I’d highly recommend it. One of the best things I’ve watched in ages.

[quote Tehmina23]@Fleapit regarding the pet cull of 1939, my Nan kept her cat alive during the War by feeding it on really weird food such as scones!! It helped that her mum ran a grocers.[/quote]
Scone Blitz cat!

To be fair though @DGRossetti people like my Nan definitely needed a Allied victory as she had Jewish ancestry through her dad & was really scared of a German Invasion.

That wasn't quite what I was getting at ...

Sorry if I misunderstood @DGRossetti

@Fleapit I've experimented with giving cake crumbs to my cat just to see if my Nan was being truthful, & it seems that cats will eat cake....

I watched it and thought it very good. Ordinary people had no choice but to carry on as best they could.

DF lived in Hull during part of the War and talked of being bombed night after night as the bombers going over missed their original targets, saw Hull lit up by the Humber and railway line and jettisoned their bombs before flying back to Germany. I had not heard the statistic of 95% of the houses being destroyed and he's passed away now, so I can't ask.

MIL was one who could be said to have done well when the war started - it brought her interesting well paid work, which pre war wouldn't have been possible and she enjoyed the cameraderie. But at the same time, she lost a very dear cousin, killed on active service in his early 20s. She's still alive now, and this is still what the War means to her.

@Tehmina23

Sorry if I misunderstood *@DGRossetti*

No harm done - much better your Nan survived.

However, as the programme clearly showed when the ruling classes were talking about "us" they most certainly did not mean you, I, or anyone else that had to work for a living. They meant the elite. Your sacrifice will help them win the war.

Loads of grim documentaries about Operation Sealion and what would have happened had Germany invaded

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion#Planned_occupation_of_Britain

Auxiliary units were expected to last no more than 3 weeks before capture and execution.

I once had a cat who more or less existed on tinned rice pudding. Another was very partial to chocolate...

Many of the pre war elite (especially the aristocracy) were actually in favour of the Nazis, only Churchill & a handful of other politicians across all the parties could see the Nazis as a danger.

Once the weak appeaser Chamberlain had gone Churchill (who was now considered to be a maverick by the government) had to form a multi party Coalition including Labour MPs in order to fight the war against the Nazis.
Prior to this certain right wing Ministers had wanted a truce & would have been happy for Hitler to rule or be allies with Britain.

So it wasn't the original ruling classes who were fighting the war - it was a coalition.

However they still made actually fatal errors at the start of the London Blitz because for example it took the efforts of the local Communist Party to get all Londoners to be allowed to use deep cellars in the West End plus the Tube Stations as shelters.

Many of the pre war elite (especially the aristocracy) were actually in favour of the Nazis, only Churchill & a handful of other politicians across all the parties could see the Nazis as a danger

Churchills only "fear" of the Nazis is that they could act as a backdoor for Bolshevism. Not out of any concern for the working man.