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Children being reunited with their parents after the end of air raid evacuations, London, UK, end of WW2, 1945 (thelemmy.club)

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[–] CaptainSaabossa@piefed.social 8 points 5 months ago (9 children)

A large portion of children were evacuated out of London to towns and villages across Britain because it was deemed much safer. A lot of them were made to live with other families they'd never even met before.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Removing children from war zones is usually practiced to, well, remove children from war zones. Depending on perspective this can be considered humanitarian.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

remove children from war zones

Sound of Bosnian sniper cranking his rifle bolt

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago

Cursed ass safari.

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 2 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

Depending on how 'voluntary' it is with regards to the children's guardians and who is doing the 'removal', it can also be ethnic cleansing.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

Caparzo: "She reminds me of my niece, sir!"

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The relevance of that Saving Private Ryan scene being...?

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

The... child in the war zone?

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social [S] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The relevance of that Saving Private Ryan scene to the comment you literally responded to.

Depending on how ‘voluntary’ it is with regards to the children’s guardians and who is doing the ‘removal’, it can also be ethnic cleansing.

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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

The child's guardians in that scene are trying to give the kid to the Americans. (Well the old man is.)

Caparzo gets sniped, thinking he is helping. Because warzone. Relevance to: notion that children in a warzone is no good.

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