And in surpising news, it turns out that Blackpool was spared the Luftwaffe during WW2 because Hitler rather fancied it as a Nazi holiday resort.
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That hoary old municipal boast. There are about 20 towns where they boast that they were spared because Hitler had plans for them; they were all going to be the regional capital, or his English retreat. Hitler was supposed to have loved Rochdale Town Hall so much he ordered it spared, and so Rochdale was avoided lest any Luftwaffe raid get it by accident. A wonderful story only ever so slightly undermined by being simply not true. The fact that the place was too insignificant to bomb obviously has no relationship to these myths.
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