ABSTRACT
Before World War II started, the government had put plans in place to evacuate children from the major cities in the event that war broke out. The government feared that the Germans would bomb civilians in populated areas, as they had done in World War I, particularly those living near factories and industrial areas. In order to prevent the loss of thousands of children’s lives, they devised and planned Operation Pied Piper, which sent children to the countryside to reside with complete strangers: a risky strategy.
