When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Evacuations of children in Germany during World War II

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuations_of_children_in...

    The NSV also organised the relocation of younger children aged 3 to 10 to host families and the transport arrangements for children of all ages to stay with relatives in safer areas. The relocation of children aged between 10 and 14 was the responsibility of the Hitler Youth. The Reichsdienststelle KLV (Reich KLV Office) provided overall ...

  3. Heuaktion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuaktion

    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.

  4. German childhood in World War II - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_childhood_in_World...

    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 ...

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children...

    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]

  6. Canteen (bottle) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canteen_(bottle)

    A Norwegian army canteen with plastic cup Wooden canteen from Oberflacht, Germany (7th century) A canteen is a reusable drinking water bottle designed to be used by hikers, campers, soldiers, bush firefighters, and workers in the field. It is usually fitted with a shoulder strap or means for fastening it to a belt, and may be covered with a ...

  7. Kennkarte - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennkarte

    Onset of World War II [ edit ] At the onset of the Second World War , a regulation issued on September 10, 1939, in the Reichsgesetzblatt mandated compulsory identification in the territory of Germany ( Reichsgebiet ) for all German citizens over the age of 15. [ 9 ]

  8. Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_birthing_centres_for...

    [15] Velpke trial, two death sentences for the killing of Polish children. [16] Dresden, Dr.-Todt-Straße 120 (Radeburger Straße 12a), Auslandskinderpflegestätte, with 40 percent of children confirmed as killed. [17] Propagandaaufnahme (February 1944). Sanitized German Nazi propaganda photo (Children at an Ostarbeiterlager). Nazi Germany ...

  9. Warsaw Ghetto boy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_boy

    The only identification that is certain is that of Rottenführer Josef Blösche, the SS man aiming the MP 28 submachine gun at the boy. [1] [10] [14] Blösche was born in the Sudetenland in 1912 and served in the Einsatzgruppen, [10] and he was a policeman employed at the Warsaw Ghetto during the uprising.