“In a very real sense young children are citizens of the world” – Kinder und Jugendliche als Kriegsopfer in der Pädagogik Minna Spechts

After the Second World War, children and young people in Germany had to be supported pedagogically. Minna Specht, an exiled educator, developed an educational programme that valued children and young people, not as the perpetrators but as victims of the war, and made it possible to deal with them pedagogically after the Second World War. This text elaborates on Minna Specht’s concept and points out that exiled educators had plenty of ideas about education after the Second World War that are rarely taken into account.