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Approximately 3.5 million people, mainly children, were evacuated en masse by the British Government during World War 2. They were sent to towns and villages in rural England where they stayed with relatives, or in many cases, complete strangers. People offering accommodation to evacuees were paid by the Government for their efforts.

Evacuation occurred three time during the war: at the outbreak of war; during the Blitz in 1940; and during 1944 and 1945 when London was being attacked by German V1 and V2 weapons. On each occasion many evacuees returned to ther homes when the threat was perceived to have reduced.

It is impossible to say how many of these were saved by evacuation because we can't know if they would have been killed had they not been evacuated.

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