Section Euro HG du Lycée Ferry, Versailles

Is the British collective memory faithful to the history of WW2 ? Do the historians emerge from oblivion certain aspects of the war ?

I) The heroic British memories of WW2

1) The Battle of Britain (July to October 1940)

2) The heroes of the Battle of Britain: Young British pilots with the place to honor them: the National Memorial to the Few at Capel-le-Ferne, near Dover (architectural study + see correction)

3) The heroes of the Homefront during the Blitz: the memory of the People's War thanks to the BBC

** Movie: Hope and Glory, John Boorman, 1987 ** (watched in 1è)

II) The History of the UK during the war needs some corrections...

1) A forgotten Navy ? The Battle of Britain Debate

2) The Revision of the Myth of the Blitz thanks to the historian Angus Calder. 

3) The use and abuse of the myth of the Blitz in time of crisis (Thatcher during the Falklands war; Tony Blair during the London attacks - see videos attached; Cameron in the current economic crisis).

III) A forgotten History is being written (see doc)

1) The Jewish immigration during WW2 and the Kindertransport: an emerging memory

2) The British concentration camps for "Enemy Aliens"

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