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The Great British Pet Massacre Of 1939
At the beginning of the second world war, before a single shot had been fired, the British set about killing hundreds of thousands of their own pets.
The British pet massacre is one of the stranger tragedies of WWII, a footnote that gets lost amongst all the human devastation that followed. In 1939, the British government formed the National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee to decide what should happen to pets as the war commenced. The fear was that as the government was forced to ration food, people would either share their rations with their pets or simply leave them to die, inhumanely, of hunger.
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