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KLV children taking "special leave" from Berlin. At the outbreak of World War II, there were no large scale evacuation of civilians in Germany as there was in Britain.From early 1940, KLV was extended to children under the age of 10 but participation was voluntary.
August 1948, German children deported from the eastern areas taken over by Poland arrive in West Germany. The Federal Statistical Office of Germany estimated that in mid-1945, 250,000 Germans remained in the northern part of the former East Prussia, which became the Kaliningrad Oblast .
[35] [36] Most of the people who were expelled were sent to Germany and used as slave labourers or they were sent to concentration camps. [37] 1941 to 1944: in Kosovo and Metohija, some 10,000 Serbs lost their lives, [38] [39] and about 80,000 [38] to 100,000 [38] [40] or more [39] were ethnically cleansed.
The director certainly felt the pressure of creating a scene that has been so widely viewed; one upload has been viewed 42 million times since it was posted 14 years ago.
There were some cases from World War II, where children were prosecuted of war crimes for actions undertaken during the war. Two 15-year-old ex-Hitler Youth were convicted of violating laws of war, by being party to a shooting of a prisoner of war. The youths' age was a mitigating factor in their sentencing. [40]
German childhood in World War II describes how the Second World War, as well as experiences related to it, [1] directly or indirectly impacted the life of children born in that era. In Germany, these children became known as Kriegskinder (war children), a term that came into use due to a large number of scientific and popular science ...
In the territory of Germany, which Stalin gave to Poland after the war, there were 10 million residents in 1944–1945, including 7.3 million permanent residents, or Reichsdeutsche (including 1 million ethnic Poles spared by the expulsions, and 6.3 million ethnic Germans), in addition on German territory to be evacuated were 2.5 million ...
In a mass evacuation effort (code named "operation Pied Piper") the British authorities relocate 1,473,000 children and adults from the cities to the countryside. The adults involved were teachers, people with disabilities and their helpers, mothers with preschool children.