York Blitz 1942 Baedeker Raid
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- In the early hours of April 29, 1942, the Second World War came to York in the most violent manner possible.
For two hours or more, bombs rained down on the city. By the time the final all-clear sounded at about 4.45am, 94 men, women and children in the city and its suburbs had been killed, or left so badly injured they were later to die.
This act came to be known as the Baedeker Raid
Anne, the little girl whose house got bombed, is my grandmother! Hearing her tell stories of this day is fascinating
Bit rich of Hitler calling Churchill a criminal.
Sounds sadly familiar
I can’t imagine what the people of England experienced during the blitz. It must have been beyond horrific. God Bless the people who died and those that survived this awful period in world history. 🇨🇦
The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.
'I'm sitting on a bomb. I can hear it ticking.' Chills right there.
Very well put together, with no histrionics and no unnecessary music. And simply very informative. The BBC could learn a bit from you, mate. Thanks.
My Mum was a 17 year old clerk at Barclays Bank in Scarborough. The morning after the raid she was sent to York to help clear up the main Barclays branch in York. She could remember walking through loads of glass and looking at the burnt out and burning buildings . She came and went by train for quite a few days. Would you see a17 year old girl doing that today !
Yes I would.
Amazing but some... Fewer Americans.
Yes there were 17 18 yr old killed in falklands
@@indiana146 yep and alot gave their lives for their islander countryfolk and for a little slice of britain far away..
I recently attended the funeral of an ex colleague whose house was bombed in York. He was about three at the time and he and his sisters were buried. They were found because his crying attracted the attention of the rescuers.
I remember I was 6 years old we lived in Queen Anne’s Rd we wear bombed out I went to Thornton-Le -Dale to my grand parents my mother and father went back to York I went back later on and we lived in a flat on Bishopthorpe Rd now live in Pickering with Maureen my wife I have never forgot the raid Gerald R Skelton
I live near york so sad that it was bombed RIP the people who died:(
The most amazing aspect of this documentary was learning about the contributions of the German people, given to help rebuild the church that was bombed. It angers me that in this day and age we have tin pot dictator types leading large nations and shaking their fists and threatening ‘retaliation’ instead of learning from the past and striving to support and care for ALL of humanity.
They was lucky the germans got their church rebuilt because Coventry never and that was a cathedral...
My Grand parents house in Alquin Ave York still bears machine gun marks from that night!
I wouldn't say the exact street of your relatives' location!
The station was destroyed, one A4: 4469, B16: 925 were destroyed upon impact.
good grief, people were so strong & true than. the people today are so soft and whinny and expect so much .
The evil that men do!
How old is this documentary?
I watched this just because my fathers house was hit and demolished in this raid of April 42 - bit surprised to see the street - Lavender Grove get a mention in this. Due to some earlier bombing they'd decided to move out to Scarborough a few weeks before though so they escaped it - just. They sheltered in the house during the raids.
Glad the budgie survived!
Love my city
Picked up from a huge bed , as a tiny child, a voice said:: where's his mum?: another voice said "Down the pub"
The German Bomber officer that was shot down said he thought some of the people that found him, after crashing in England, must hate him for being German.
I thought instantly after hearing this statement No, I feel these people that might be feeling hate towards you is because you were just shortly before this time, in the act of dropping bombs on a city full of human beings. You could be from anywhere in the world and still have hate directed at you when you take part in an act of bombing cities full of people. This is an example of the warped thinking of human beings, when nations go to war and somehow makes acts like this ok. It's not enough to have a killing fields full of soldiers, war somehow needs innocents blood at well, , ,
Churchill began civilian bombing.
After this, Germans got it back with the Hanover 1,000 plane raid.
Horror, begets horror.
I remember blacked out homes, and ration cards - at age 4 years.
Hamburg: "40,000" dead
Cologne , the first 1000 bomber raid.
good shit
In a past life I died in this oh god
Yeah....sure you did....
I believe you.
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