Children and War Past and Present
Children and War Past and Present The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in…
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Children and War Past and Present
The amount of international research on 'Children and War' carried out by academics, governments and non-governmental organizations has continually increased in recent years. Simultaneously, since the 1990s, the history of the Holocaust and World War II has also increasingly been written from the perspective of children; those who speak out now and publish their memoirs experienced the Holocaust as children. At the same time there has been growing public interest in how children experience military conflicts and how their lives have been affected by war and its aftermath.In light of the many brutal post-colonialist civil wars or 'new wars', especially in Africa and Asia, child soldiers have in particular gained increased attention.
A similar generational change has also taken place in the societies of the perpetrators: Germans and Austrians who experienced the war as children