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this episode is about how the destruction of urban warfare - in particular the damage to people, ecologies, and the fabric of the city done by the blitz in bethnal green. this photo is from the bomb-damaged bethnal green chest hospital

the blitz is highly sentimentalised in british culture and discourse. it's crucial to try to remember it for what it was - a relentless campaign of aerial warfare with over 40,000 civilian casualties. in this photo, furniture is salvage from a bomb-damaged bethnal green house

we also consider the bethnal green tube station disaster - the largest civilian casualty even in britain during WW2 - and how negligence and warfare turn cities into lethal infrastructures. photo below shows safety measures being installed after the disaster

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