The purpose of this article is to talk about the trauma impact and post-traumatic stress symptoms and distress of former German children of World War II. The article explains how war is a long-lasting trauma that has multiple stressors like physical harm, intimidation, loss of loved ones, deprivation, abuse, and starvation. The article talks about how they recruited participants through a local press to be interviewed and assessed to measure how there post-traumatic is by them telling their experiences during World War II.Different studies show that there was a high percentage of children diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress symptoms after a few years since the war but after another few years, the number of children had decreased but there …show more content…
Malo.It also talks about how children are getting shot, tortured, raped and witnessed a murder of someone or those close to them and that most deaths from anti-personnel mines are among children. Some even go through military training that is under the age of eighteen years old and getting themselves into situations that children should be in like how Werner went into war at the age of sixteen years old and how he had witnessed many people getting killed or witnessing a person that he knows killing an innocent person.The article also states that there is an increasing likelihood that children would be separated from their families such as Marie-Laure, how her father and her great- uncle had been taken by the German forces.They explained that a death of family causes on to be depressed and/or traumatized due to the child either witnessing the death or just griefing of the loss of a loved one.They tried to get the public to think that they would easily get the refugee children to lose the trauma over time.But the children would never forget the traumatic memory that they had and that there is always something that would trigger that memory