41. Nella’s Last War, 62.

42. One startling and shocking evidence of this was the general failure of the evacuation of children from London at the start of the war (the government project in view of possible air raids). More than a million workingclass children were sent to middle-class homes in the country, often with their mothers. “The scheme has now [this was written in the late spring of 1940] frittered away, and the sociologist’s job is to record what happened.… As it is, thousands of hosts in reception areas are disgruntled and would be unwilling to experiment with further visitors, and thousands of mothers have gone back to the danger zones with their minds made up never to return” (War Begins at Home, 296). One M-O observer: “The gulf between middle-class hosts and workers’ child-evacuees is somewhat unbridgeable; the utter destitution of some children [many of them liceridden and verminous] evokes horror among the middle classes. In one case a woman was driven mad by the vile filth and disease of two children. It is doubtful if she will recover” (312). Another: “The main drawback of the evacuation scheme was that it underestimated the difference which exists between various sections of the population” (306). Nothing like this in the Third Reich.