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Hull History Centre
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Kate
July 30, 2021
Hull was rarely referred to by name in newspaper reports during the Second World War. Instead, reports of raids were said to have taken place in a "north-east coast town" in an attempt to protect the identity of the city and play down the devastation wreaked on the population by the Luftwaffe. Hull was subject to 86 raids, the first on 19/20 June 1940, and the last on 17 March 1945. It was the second most destroyed city in the UK after Coventry which, by contrast, was razed to the ground on a single night. Photographs and original archives held at the Hull History Centre bear testament to the extent of this devastation and provide an insight into how the city coped under wartime conditions. Chief amongst the exhibits are the essays of school children containing heart-breaking accounts of the bombing (the "Zuckerman archive").
Hull was rarely referred to by name in newspaper reports during the Second World War. Instead, reports of raids were said to have taken place in a "north-east coast town" in an attempt to protect the identity of the city and play down the devastation wreaked on the population by the Luftwaffe. Hull…
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Kingston upon Hull, England