I was wondering if the germans took measures to ensure the safety of children in the event of bombing raids across Germany in the same way that Britain chose to move much of the city-children of Southern England to Scotland. I've always heard of the evacuees of WW2 in the UK but never about whether or not the germans did the same.
In short, given that Germany was ultimately bombed heavily, did they let their children die at home or send them elsewhere? EDIT: Following from that, did they just have to let children be in the cities once the Russians counter-invaded?
They did, there was a program called Kinderlandverschickung (= children countryside sending/evacuation/deportation), which was originally a social program for poor children, throught the Nazi (private, organized by the party) welfare society, the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (= NSV). In 1940, it was restructured into the Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung (= expanded KLV) which evacuated endangered or bombed children until the age of ten (and sometimes their mothers and siblings) and sent them to the countryside. There were also Verschickungen for the over ten year olds, organized by the HJ, and, of course, private initiatives, which were supported by the NSV. It's hard to tell how much exactly they sent, the numbers are inflated or deflated, whatever suited the propaganda best. The closest estimates would be around 800 000 children. If we take the members of the HJ, 8.7 million, that would have been 1 /11 of the German youth.
If you can read German, this monography would be of interest.