Book contents
- War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction More than Victims: Framing the History of Modern Childhood and War
- Part I Inspiring and Mobilizing
- Part II Adapting and Surviving
- 8 Combatant Children: Ideologies and Experiences of Childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902–1918
- 9 Drawing the Great War: Children’s Representations of War and Violence in France, Russia, and Germany
- 10 Bellicists, Feminists, and Deserters: Youth, War, and the German Youth Movement, 1914–1918
- 11 Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During World War I
- 12 In Their Own Words: Children in the World of the Holocaust
- 13 The Dark Side of the “Good War”: Children and Medical Experimentation in the United States During World War II
- 14 Attacking Children with Nuclear Weapons: The Centrality of Children in American Understandings of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Index
13 - The Dark Side of the “Good War”: Children and Medical Experimentation in the United States During World War II
from Part II - Adapting and Surviving
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 February 2019
Book contents
- War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
- Publications of the German Historical Institute
- War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction More than Victims: Framing the History of Modern Childhood and War
- Part I Inspiring and Mobilizing
- Part II Adapting and Surviving
- 8 Combatant Children: Ideologies and Experiences of Childhood in the Royal Navy and British Army, 1902–1918
- 9 Drawing the Great War: Children’s Representations of War and Violence in France, Russia, and Germany
- 10 Bellicists, Feminists, and Deserters: Youth, War, and the German Youth Movement, 1914–1918
- 11 Boys Without a Country: Ottoman Orphan Apprentices in Germany During World War I
- 12 In Their Own Words: Children in the World of the Holocaust
- 13 The Dark Side of the “Good War”: Children and Medical Experimentation in the United States During World War II
- 14 Attacking Children with Nuclear Weapons: The Centrality of Children in American Understandings of the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Index
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- War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars , pp. 248 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019