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Wealthy people sold their oceanside properties for cheap. This trend went into high gear after a German submarine shelled the Atlantic coast.

Why do you call the Dresden bombing a “black mark” on Churchill? Dresden was a major military industrial production center and an important railroad marshalling center. Like industries most places, assembly plants were enormous but the shops where parts and subassemblies were made were relatively small and scattered throughout the cities.
The assembly plant buildings might be collapsed but the machinery would withstand anything but a direct hit. The machines were not adversely affected by weather exposure in the short run.
Aerial bombing then was quite inaccurate, particularly when flying through showers of splinters from A-A shells after coming past interceptor planes firing thousands of bullets and cannon shells at them.
Shops and factories were surrounded by the houses of the workers, as were the railroad tracks and marshalling yards. So the bombs that missed their intended targets destroyed the houses and apartment buildings of the workers and those who supported them.
If a machine operator was seriously injured or killed, the machine s/he operated had to have a new operator. Personnel to run the factories, drive the trucks, operate and maintain the trains and tracks, run the waterworks, the gasworks, repair the electric lines, a myriad of things that were essential to produce war materiél, were in short supply, for every able-bodied man who could be spared was in the military. As in the USA and other countries, women filled the places vacated by men off to the war.
Surely you wouldn’t mind the woman, somebody’s mother, who was running the machine loading artillery shells, one of which just might “have your name on it,” to be hit by a bomb and blown apart? Would you care that she was at home when off work washing dishes or nursing her baby? She was doing her best to blow your head, arms and legs off your carcass, whether the thought ever entered her mind.

Never mind that before Arab Muslims began to attack blacks to enslave them, and to incite black tribes to go to war against one another for the purpose of capturing prisoners of war for sale to Arab Muslim slave traders, slavery was virtually universal and was not race- or color-based. Slaves in the Roman empire were of all colors from the nations that bordered or had trade with Rome.

Youre not kiddin
I was spanked and paddled from the first through the ninth grade.
Maybe thats why i won’t send my kids to public or any mass skule.