At the end of the war, the Allies discovered tens of thousands of unaccompanied children in liberated Europe. Who were they, to whom did they belong and who would help them?
Studium Generale Lecture
Speaker: Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London
When: Monday 21 January, 20.00.
Where: Auditorium, MBB 4-6. Free entrance.
This lecture explains the creation of the International Tracing Service’s Child Search Branch and examines cases of children whose fates were decided by the cooperation and competition of different national, military, and international humanitarian organisations. The lecture will go into the decision-making process, the role of the occupation authorities, the German authorities’ willingness or lack of willingness to cooperate, denazification and the memorialisation of Nazi crimes.