Opinion Storefronts of Jewish-owned businesses damaged during the Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” in Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 10, 1938. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Around the world, millions of childhoods are under threat from war. Sadly, this isn’t a new phenomenon. Protecting children isn’t something that humankind has historically been very good at. Take World War II and the Holocaust: an already horrific period in human history was an era in which innocent children were specifically persecuted. The Nazis advocated for the targeted mass murder of children in order to prevent the next generation of ethnic minorities and ideological opponents from...
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