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Outlook on Children   The Holocaust was a desperate and terrifying time for many, and unfortunately, children were spared no mercy. German authorities viewed young children as useless because they couldn't work in forced labor and, according to those Germans, were just wasting food, so children were often the first to be deported to killing centers or led to mass graves to be shot. Mainly killed were the children of targeted groups such as those that were Jewish, Polish, or living in the Soviet Union. Even disabled German children were targeted; one example being the Euthanasia Program where kids were overdosed with medicine or starved to death at supposes pediatric clinics. About five thousand to seven thousand patients were killed this sickening way.

During the Holocaust, it was common for children to not attend school and it was often hard for them to make and keep friends, which made them all to more lonely and scared throughout this time period. Also, it was almost always the case that a child was without one or both of their parents and a lot of times they would never know what became of them. Anne Frank was probably the most well-known child to have lived in the time of the Holocaust