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  2. Military use of children in World War II - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. History of children in the military - Wikipedia

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    In World War II, children under the age of 18 were widely used by all sides in formal and informal military roles. Children were readily indoctrinated into the prevailing ideology of the warring parties, quickly trained, and often sent to the front line; many were wounded or killed.

  4. Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II

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    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).

  5. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Childhood in war - Wikipedia

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    Differences, for example, become apparent when it relates to the war children in occupied Poland during the Second World War. [5] The English term war child [6] as well as the French term enfant de la guerre are used in some countries as a synonym for children who have one native parent and one parent from a member of an occupying military ...

  7. Impact of war on children - Wikipedia

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    The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...

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  9. German childhood in World War II - Wikipedia

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    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 ...