{"id":4653,"date":"2020-02-19T17:50:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T14:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2020-03-17T17:51:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:51:09","slug":"video-documentary-worksheet-the-children-who-fought-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/video-documentary-worksheet-the-children-who-fought-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Documentary Worksheet: &#8220;The Children who Fought Hitler&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/world_war_two\/4_Children_who_fought_Hitler.docx\">Video Documentary Worksheet: &#8220;The Children who Fought Hitler&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> (could be used as an alternative video for students who feel uncomfortable watching the &#8216;Holocaust&#8217; documentary)<\/p>\n<p>This is a documentary telling the forgotten story of a heroic battle fought by the children of the British Memorial School to help liberate Europe from the Nazis. The school served a unique community of ex-First World War soldiers and their families living in Ypres in Belgium who lovingly tended the war graves. Steeped in ideals of patriotic service and sacrifice, many pupils and ex-pupils refused to surrender to the invading Nazi forces. Three surviving school pupils tell their extraordinary stories of resistance, illustrated with rare archive film.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/dday\/\"><strong>Part of the new World War Two study unit at ActiveHistory.<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/dday\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4645\" src=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/churchill.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Documentary Worksheet: &#8220;The Children who Fought Hitler&#8221; (could be used as an alternative video for students who feel uncomfortable watching the &#8216;Holocaust&#8217; documentary) This is a documentary telling the forgotten story of a heroic battle fought by the children of the British Memorial School to help liberate Europe from the Nazis. The school served&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/year-9-history\/video-documentary-worksheet-the-children-who-fought-hitler\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[1254,482,1255,603,359,420],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1d3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4653\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}