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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 ...
It is estimated that during World War II Nazis killed 2 million Polish and Polish Jewish children in occupied Polish territories. 1.5 million Jewish children perished in the Holocaust; tens of thousands of Romani children died in the Romani Holocaust, between 5,000 and 25,000 disabled children were killed as part of the Nazi euthanasia program ...
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).
The UK Ministry of Health advertised the evacuation programme through posters, among other means. The poster depicted here was used in the London Underground.. The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to defend individuals, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
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.
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]
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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 ...