‘Wir wollten doch wissen, wie gross die gefahr war': the German war child as icon and agent in Berlin school essays, 1946

In recent years the generation of German children born in the 1930s and 1940s have begun to speak publicly about their experiences during World War II, breaking their decades-long silence apparently for the first time. Publications such as Sabine Bode's Die vergessene Generation: Die Kriegskind...