Blitz Families by Penny Starns

Author:Penny Starns
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780752478098
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

At the beginning of the war it was feared – and feared by specialists – that the strain of war conditions, particularly under aerial bombardment, would lead to a serious increase of mental disorders. The contrary has proved to be the fact. In 1938 the number admitted to mental hospitals was 30,000, and it was the same in 1939. In 1940 it fell to 28,000, and in 1941 – these are the years that covered the big bombings – to 26,000, that is, 4,000 fewer than in the years of peace. That seems to me to be an eloquent testimony of the nerves of the nation, and it should assure Hitler that his attempt to break the nerve of our people by the terror by night has failed. He will not fret the fibre of our resolution or break our nerve. I do not think that any prophet would have prophesised that our crowded populations would have stood the test of nerves so well.1

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