I'm currently half way through watching Lucy Worsley's latest programme Blitz Spirit.
To be honest I'm finding it heart-breaking to watch, hearing it through the words of the people who lived it, and to find out that our own Government kept so much from the general news as it was happening during the war years. I understand the need for some things to be delayed ... reports, information etc ... for all sorts of national security and morale issues, but it must have been horrendous for the people going through the absolute terror of the worst days of the blitz for it to be hushed up for so long and not reported on. As though they were going through it alone.
As for photographs of bombed buildings being censored to show only part of the destruction and having to include an untouched building and 'happy people' ... words fail me.
It seems the more you learn the harder it is to accept that humans do this sort of things to each other so very regularly. There has never been a time on this planet without a war raging somewhere.
Why?
Sue xx
