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From early 1940, KLV was extended to children under the age of 10 but participation was voluntary. Adolf Hitler personally intervened following the Royal Air Force bombing of Berlin on 24 September 1940, instructing the evacuation of children from areas at risk of bombing. [2] On 27 September of that year, Martin Bormann wrote in a confidential ...
In Germany, a network of organisers was established, and these volunteers worked around the clock to make priority lists of those most in peril: teenagers who were in concentration camps or in danger of arrest, Polish children or teenagers threatened with deportation, children in Jewish orphanages, children whose parents were too impoverished ...
Additional non-German-speaking children were evacuated along with German civilians, while tens of thousands of foreign children were recruited as forced labourers or born to female forced labourers in Germany. Confusion between ethnic German children from Eastern Europe and non-German children was another factor that led to inflated estimates. [1]
It cannot be assumed that the term has comparable meanings in languages of other European countries. [12] For example, the English term war children, as well as the French term enfant de la Guerre, define the concept narrower, as a synonym for Besatzungskind – a child of a native mother and a father who is member of an occupying military force – describing implications associated with that ...
Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II.
[1] [9] The children received a formal reception upon arrival at the airport. [1] There, they would have been required to complete entry formalities and undergo medical inspections. [1] [b] They were met by W. A. Leon, of the movement for the care of children from Germany. [9] Also meeting the children were the Davidsons, who took them by bus ...
Boys' roll call at the main children's concentration camp in Łódź, of which KZ Dzierżązna, for Polish girls as young as eight, was a sub-camp.. Heuaktion (German: "hay harvest", or "hay operation") [1] was a World War II operation in which 40,000 to 50,000 Polish and Ukrainian children aged 10 to 14 were kidnapped by German occupation forces and transported to Nazi Germany as slave labourers.
Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–45 is a 1994 book by Richard C. Lukas published by Hippocrene Books, [1] focusing on the topic of Nazi Germany treatment of children during World War II, covering topics of Nazi crimes against children with focus on Polish and Jewish children. The book received a second edition from the ...