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					Children and War


« Back		Children have been some of the most innocent victims of 20th-century warfare. Forced into service as child soldiers, used for propaganda purposes or made orphans by bombs indiscriminately dropped on cities. Here are some images to make us pause and contemplate the cruelty of war on our most immediate future. Click on any image to order a high-res scan.



9MX-1915-0-0-A3 Child soldier, circa 1915, during the Mexican Revolution akg-images		7ND-P1-TKO10746 A child refugee in Darfur, West Sudan akg-images / PictureContact (Tom Koene)






9-1945-3-29-A2 Hans-Georg Henke, a 16-year-old anti-aircraft gunner, taken prisoner circa April 1945 akg-images		7-A3-APN105738 Peacekeeping forces in Burundi at the Kebezi military base, March 2006 africanpictures / akg-images






2-G56-B1-1945-30 A young boy sits in the ruins of his family home in London, bombed by the Luftwaffe, January 1945 akg-images		9US-1944-6-12-A1-9 During the battle of Saipan, July 1944, US Marines find a still-living baby amongst hundreds of dead Japanese akg-images






9SP-1936-0-0-A1-35 Spanish children fleeing the Civil War arrive in Belgium, 1936 akg-images		8-1949-0-0-H3 Children play amidst the ruins of Berlin, 1949 akg-images / ullstein bild






7ND-P1-IMAGE054 Refugee children, Angola akg-images / PictureContact (Tom Koene)		9RD-1919-0-0-A8 A 12-year-old child soldier of the Red Army, 1919 akg-images / RIA Novosti






9PO-1941-0-0-A1-19 Warsaw Ghetto, 1941: A father with his dead baby akg-images		9RD-1944-0-0-A9 Russian children in a Finnish internment camp, 1944 akg-images






9VT-1968-5-7-A1 A 12-year-old child soldier holds an M-79 light mortar during the Vietnam War, 7 May 1968 akg-images		5UN-B1-Z1-1956-4 Hungary after the Uprising: A young girl in the street, circa December 1956 akg-images / Erich Lessing






9VT-1979-8-5-H1 Boat people feeling Vietnam, 5 August 1979 akg-images		9FK-1944-8-15-A1 St. Briac-Sur-Mer, 15 August 1944: The kiss of liberation akg-images / Tony Vaccaro






8-1945-5-0-H1-18-B A young boy amidst the rubble, Berlin 1945 akg-images / RIA Novosti		2-G56-L1-1939-9 A crying child is handed over by an air raid warden, London, 19 June 1939 akg-images






2-G56-R2-1942-8 A Russian woman and her children survey their destroyed home, circa 1942 akg-images		2-P75-N1-1941-41 Naploa students mustered for roll call, Potsdam, 1941 akg-images






2-G56-G1-1945-55 A teenage member of the Volkssturm is captured by a US soldier, 23 March 1945 akg-images / NordicPhotos		2-G56-L1-1939-4 Gasmasks for mother and child, 22 April 1939 akg-images