Before the Blitz, Britain’s Forgotten WWII Pet Massacre Killed 750,000 Pets
When people think about the first days of World War II, they picture Germany’s invasion of Poland, Britain’s declaration of war, and children being evacuated from major cities. What usually gets left out is one of the war’s bleakest and strangest home-front tragedies: the mass killing of family pets across Britain in September 1939. Historians […]


