British public wants reprisals

3rd October 1940: Government monitoring of morale in the face of sustained bombing reveals "a savage dislike of Germany"

A Large Fire near the Thames, October 1940, Ernest Boye Uden, watercolour, War Artists Advisory Committee purchase.

It isn't easy to make generalisations about how the British public responded to the ‘Blitz’. No doubt the close relatives of the 1,000 to 2,000 men, women and children who were being killed every week were not amongst those who felt “cool t…