Effects of War on Children: Comparing Experiences of Children During the Holocaust and Children Affected by the War on Terrorism

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Pope John Paul II once said “We wish to remember. But we wish to remember for a purpose, namely to ensure that never again will evil prevail, as it did for the millions of innocent victims of Nazism.” (Paul, 2000) This speech goes with all wars that occurred in the past and present. This synopsis will focus on the effects of war on children and the different ways they survived through it. It will compare the children of the Holocaust and the children of the war on terrorism. War has a great effect on children and can harm them socially, mentally, and physically. Survival of the fittest differs vastly between these children and the wars they are going through.

Terrorist groups are all over and have been around for a long time. Back in 1933 a special type of terrorist group took over Germany and most of Eastern Europe; Nazi’s. Nazi’s were the national socialist party with cumulative attacks towards European Jewry (" Nazi ideology," 2007). This meant that they murdered any Jew no matter age, height, size, or even skin color, just that they were Jew. The Holocaust was the organized, state sponsored murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (Shirer, 1981). Other people who were involved were gypsies, disabled, and additional Slavic people. This happened because a man named Adolf Hitler, was disappointed with his government and blamed minorities for there failure. Adolf believed that Austria was not a melting pot where everyone can come together and be successful. He saw Jews and other minorities as “maggots in a rotten body” and blamed them for all of society’s failure. Overall Adolf blamed them for his failure in life (Shirer, 1981).

The Holocaust started in West Germany and spread all through Europe causin...

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