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Mr. B. prefers to remain anonymous. The ex-social worker used to work with unaccompanied child refugees in Hamburg./“Minors who fled the war, accompanied or not, have witnessed the worst atrocities. Some were forced to watch decapitations … these images will never leave them.”/“Every war zone has its own defining features: for example, many young Syrians have seen bodies strewn about the streets … it’s different in Iraq, or Afghanistan.”/“In Hamburg, there are also a lot of street kids from North Africa, who are part of gangs and have never known family life …/They move to Europe and steal what they can. Their traumas are not the same.”/“Once a week, I would bring one of the kids to the refugee clinic.” [psychological aid centre for refugee minors of University Clinic Hamburg]