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The lack of legal protection for children in times of war, which allows for their exploitation, can be linked to the lack of a universally recognised definition of a child during World War II. Prior to the creation of the United Nations during World War II, protection of child welfare was predominantly embodied in the laws of war, jus in bello ...
Estimates of the number of war children fathered by German soldiers during World War II are difficult to gauge. Mothers tended to hide such pregnancies for fear of revenge and reprisal by family members. Lower estimates range in the hundreds of thousands, while upper estimates are much increased, into the millions. [1] [2]
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 ...
During the Blitz he found for them in the countryside often non-Jewish foster homes. In order to ensure that the children followed Jewish dietary laws , he instructed them to say to the foster parents that they were fish-eating vegetarians. He also saved large numbers of Jews with South American protection papers.
An estimated 20,000 children took part in hostilities during the 1990s, including the 1994 Rwanda genocide when many children were involved in committing atrocities. [ 21 ] 5,000 children were in the national army, [ 21 ] while others, including many street children, joined or were made to join armed groups. [ 22 ]
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. This was during a critical period in British history, between July and September 1940, when the Battle of Britain was raging, and German invasion forces were being amassed across ...
A Hitler Youth in Poland: The Nazis' Program for Evacuating Children During World War II. Translated by Margot B. Dembo. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 0810112922. Wolfgang Keim (1997). Erziehung unter der Nazi-Diktatur: Kriegsvorbereitung, Krieg und Holocaust. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. ISBN 3-89678-036-0. Gerhard Kock (1997).
A child's "racial value" would determine to which of 11 racial types it was assigned, including 62 points assessing body proportions, eye colour, hair colour, and the shape of the skull. During this testing process, children were divided into three groups (in English translation): "desired population growth" (erwünschter Bevölkerungszuwachs);