London at War

The key points in this lecture had to do with London’s involvement in both World Wars, but especially in World War Two. World War Two is always a topic of interest to me and so hearing the other countries perspectives always is appealing to me. The Great War between 1914-1918 is so devastating knowing that London’s first air raid occurred and that twenty-right lives were taken. I also found it fascinating that the royal family changed their name from the Saxe-Coburg Goethe to Windsor which it is still today. I am glad that even though the British never thought there was a possibility of war they prepared for it. I wonder what would have happened if they had not at all and if Hitler would have had a better chance of occupying London, which could have changed the outcome of the war. It must have been hard or even unbearable for people to have their food rationed. Not being able to live the life that you are accustomed to and having the government delegate what you can have is unfortunate, but I understand it had to happen. I think the Blitz is the most intense experience of the war, I could never imagine being bombed for 56 consecutive nights. Whenever I am in the underground tube station I think of all the people the came down for protection. I truly see the underground so differently now, and completely understand why everyone went down there even though the government tried to stop people from going down there. I though it was bizarre that our professor’s mother got an adrenalin rush from the war because she didn’t know if she would live till tomorrow. Since my major is Fashion Merchandising and during the war clothes were rationed it must have negatively impacted the industry because people could not just buy what they wanted.