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Blitz spirit was a thing to some extent but history has a revisionist view of how people behaved doing the war. Both in terms of obeying and abiding the rules and the fact that the mental health toll was basically just ignored.
One of the thing I was thinking about the Spanish Flu is that misinformation we’re surely prevalent in that time, just not well known since to the lack of social media at the time.
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Blitz spirit was a thing to some extent but history has a revisionist view of how people behaved doing the war. Both in terms of obeying and abiding the rules and the fact that the mental health toll was basically just ignored.
The idea that there was some kind of national spirit that dragged us through the war is basically a myth. Sure, people looked out for each other in amazing ways but a lot of it was simply striving to survive. People sufferered. They were scared. People lied,cheated and stole to survive. They set each other up and grassed each other up. There are even accounts of downed German pilots being beaten to death in the streets of London.
Blitz spirit was the desire to survive. It wasn't always stiff upper lip and helping your neighbours.