WWII: Through the Children's Eyes | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Best Documentary 2023  Stories from nine different people across the UK on what life was like growing up during World Wa | dG1fbVVrMXE5bUlmWTg

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00:00 They dug up the garden because they had to grow vegetables and we had the aerate shelter.

00:05 I got evacuated to my uncle in Kingsgoleswold, Devon.

00:10 It couldn't be avoided, I don't think.

00:14 Oh yeah, plenty of food because my mum used to grow all the vegetables.

00:21 It's great to see the Americans, got any gum chunks?

00:25 I was born just before the war so everything was normal to me, even though there's a war on.

00:31 We heard this plane and you could tell that you always knew the difference in the planes.

00:36 You knew if they were German or ours.

00:40 We went walking along this road and just as we got to the end there was a bang behind us.

00:47 And I heard this noise and I thought, oh aeroplanes and it frightened me.

00:52 I went to the top of the stairs and said, mum, they're coming again.

00:56 ...handed the German government a final note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock a state of war would exist between us.

01:08 I have to tell you now, this country is at war with Germany.

01:14 [music]