Children's+War

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Children were affected by World War 2 as much as adults. They suffered anxiety when they were evacuated, as they were not sure whether their parents had perished or not. They also had their food rationed, which ended up with sickly, weak children. To minimise vitamin deficiencies bottles of cod-liver oil and orange juice were issued free to children, also there was a thick dark sticky multivitamin tonic called Virol that was a similar consistency to Marmite and had to be eaten by the spoonful.

They had to carry a Gas Mask with them, as 'Hitler brought no warning'. However, they never were gassed, but they couldn't take chances. The government said that children under 5 would be scared by the normal grey and black Gas Masks, so they produced a 'Mickey Mouse' Gas Mask brightly coloured in red and blue.

During air-raids, when then noise of the war outside of the air-raid shelter was particularly scary, children sang songs and chanted their times tables, anything to take their mind off it all. In calmer times in the shelters, letters would be written to friends or relatives that had been evacuated or even a big brother, father, uncle or grandad in the forces.

Children spent a lot of time writing letters. If they were evacuated, they would send a lot of letters home, and would eagerly wait for a reply. If they weren't evacuated, they would send letters to friends and family they didn't see.

New clothes were scarce, so children had to be thankful for any hand-me-downs or clothes their mothers or grandmothers had knitted for them or recycled from another garment, maybe even the old curtains!

Althought people think that children had nothing to do with war and they were not affected,but they were. Every child was given a gas mask to carry with them, as many posters said hitler will send no warning. So that the population in the cities will not die out, the goverment decided to send all the children to the country where they will be safe from all danger and death. Also in the war all of the wool was very scarce so if they were a girl and had an older sister they would get her clothes and the oldest daughter would get the mothers. So most of the time the clothes were too big.

Hitler didn't care if they were small children, if they were jews they would have to die. So if you think that the children were not affected by the war, you are wrong.

During the war, to make children happier they would sing this song:

you are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when clouds are grey. You’ll never know dear, how much I love you. So Please don’t take my sunshine away!