Something I did not know prior to this reading was the Kinderlandvershickung, or KLV program. The KLV was the NAZI plan recognition of the reality of war and decision to move German children out of major urban areas. The leadership realized that Britain was not going down without a fight. Evacuation of the German civilian population was necessary. German children would be sent to the countryside for their protection. I find it incredible that through this program over 5 million German children were evacuated from major cities. Unlike other programs under NAZI control, the KLV was not as organized; the locations for evacuated children were not planned out very well.
In addition this situation reminds me of the resettlements in China during Mao’s revolution. Mao sent Chinese youth to the countryside to work in agriculture for the state. These people were from urban areas and often stuck out in the rural regions; country fold often resented the transfers because of the attention they received. Much is the case with Germany’s evacuated children and the rural population they bothered.
