Publications of the German Historical Institute - Series page

pp ii-ii

War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Introduction - More than Victims: Framing the History of Modern Childhood and War

pp 1-14

Part I - Inspiring and Mobilizing

pp 15-148

1 - Patriotic Fun: Toys and Mobilization in China from the Republican to the Communist Era

pp 17-34

2 - Forging a Patriotic Youth: Penny Dreadfuls and Military Censorship in World War I Germany

pp 35-52

3 - Recruiting Japanese Boys for the Pioneer Youth Corps of Manchuria and Mongolia

pp 53-70

4 - Defining the Ideal Soviet Childhood: Reportage About Child Evacuees from Spain as Didactic Literature

pp 71-86

5 - Learning More than Letters: Alphabet Books in the Soviet Union and the United States During World War II

pp 87-112

6 - Boys and Girls in the Service of Total War: Defense Service Training in Swedish Schools During World War II

pp 113-127

7 - Good Soldiers All? Democracy and Discrimination in the Boy Scouts of America, 1941–1945

pp 128-148

Part II - Adapting and Surviving

pp 149-282

8 - Combatant Children: Ideologies and Experiences of Childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902–1918

pp 151-169

9 - Drawing the Great War: Children’s Representations of War and Violence in France, Russia, and Germany

pp 170-188

10 - Bellicists, Feminists, and Deserters: Youth, War, and the German Youth Movement, 1914–1918

pp 189-205

11 - Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During World War I

pp 206-228

12 - In Their Own Words: Children in the World of the Holocaust

pp 229-247

13 - The Dark Side of the “Good War”: Children and Medical Experimentation in the United States During World War II

pp 248-266

14 - Attacking Children with Nuclear Weapons: The Centrality of Children in American Understandings of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

pp 267-282

Index

pp 283-300