Third Reich Boy Soldiers
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Kurt Fischer - a German boy crew the rescue boat decorated iron Cross II class...
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A young German soldier in pain being treated by American GI...
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A young Austrian engineering student drafted into the German Wehrmacht...
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Two young German soldiers, one injured, the other dead. As they advanced into Germany, the Allied soldiers were constantly surprised at the extreme youth of the enemy forces. 24 - 31 March 1945...
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Don't forget that German high command was scraping the bottom of the barrel towards the end.
The Volkssturm was largely manned with old men, half cripples and kids.
Even in the so called former elite units, were many boys who had lied to get into the service.
In the Harskamp (after the war) we had two boys, one 15, and his brother 16 who had joined the Landstorm Nederland.
One day for whatever reason, all the guards were gone, and they just walked out of the gate.
For a day we (the prisoners) guarded ourselves Could not have gone anywhere, anyway, still dressed in uniform.
Two days later their mother brought them back, because she did not want any trouble at home, where her daughter was "going"with a Canadian.
Just a silly memory.
H.N.
p.s. I was at the time at the ripe old age of 18. , and an Uscha
my brother a Geschutz commandant of a Flak gun, was even 16; his crew was between 14 and 16.
The Volkssturm was largely manned with old men, half cripples and kids.
Even in the so called former elite units, were many boys who had lied to get into the service.
In the Harskamp (after the war) we had two boys, one 15, and his brother 16 who had joined the Landstorm Nederland.
One day for whatever reason, all the guards were gone, and they just walked out of the gate.
For a day we (the prisoners) guarded ourselves Could not have gone anywhere, anyway, still dressed in uniform.
Two days later their mother brought them back, because she did not want any trouble at home, where her daughter was "going"with a Canadian.
Just a silly memory.
H.N.
p.s. I was at the time at the ripe old age of 18. , and an Uscha
my brother a Geschutz commandant of a Flak gun, was even 16; his crew was between 14 and 16.
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This thread helps even more so then ever to shed some light on the type of Government and more so German leaders right down it's citizens allowing Children, training children, arming children, and sentencing them to death...what a shame and waste...
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Thank you for sharing your story with us, Haen...HaEn wrote:Don't forget that German high command was scraping the bottom of the barrel towards the end.
The Volkssturm was largely manned with old men, half cripples and kids.
Even in the so called former elite units, were many boys who had lied to get into the service.
In the Harskamp (after the war) we had two boys, one 15, and his brother 16 who had joined the Landstorm Nederland.
One day for whatever reason, all the guards were gone, and they just walked out of the gate.
For a day we (the prisoners) guarded ourselves Could not have gone anywhere, anyway, still dressed in uniform.
Two days later their mother brought them back, because she did not want any trouble at home, where her daughter was "going"with a Canadian.
Just a silly memory.
H.N.
p.s. I was at the time at the ripe old age of 18. , and an Uscha
my brother a Geschutz commandant of a Flak gun, was even 16; his crew was between 14 and 16.
Is it true that the Nazis only used kids in the end of the war and not from beginning?
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I think it's a touching picture and story...
A 15 years old German Luftwaffe anti-aircraft crew member crying after being taken prisoner by American forces during Spring of 1945 WWII action. Giessen, Germany, 1945...
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A 15 years old German Luftwaffe anti-aircraft crew member crying after being taken prisoner by American forces during Spring of 1945 WWII action. Giessen, Germany, 1945...
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Allied leaflet T30 (frontpage) in German saying : "Victims look at you". It shows a Hitleryouth boy-soldier surrendering. The original translation of this page has a note by the translator saying: "Victims look at you" is a variation of a very popular German book title "Tiere sehen dich an" (Animals look at you)'...
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Below is also the complete translation of the back of this leaflet (A German Youth). (coll. Burridge) :
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Below is also the complete translation of the back of this leaflet (A German Youth). (coll. Burridge) :
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Here is a video showing the brainwashing of kids/children soon to be used as cannon fodder/killed a few years later all for reasons now seemingly worthless...one thing interesting is the child playing the drums at the 14 second mark until around 31 seconds on this video....wonder if he survived, somehow the image of him beating his drum so enthusiastically sticks in my mind
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Gruesome reality : a fallen young Panzergrenadier of the 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend" in Normandy shortly after the invasion of June 6th 1944. As you can see the soldier has already been checked for souvenirs! What you see lying around to his right are actually playing cards...
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A young soldier of the Waffen-SS is taken prisoner by US-soldiers. Malmedy/Belgium, December 18th 1944, all 3 of them look scared as hell!
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I've just read Anthony Bevor's excellent new book on D-Day. Those SS troops had every reason to look scared. Beevor's book is the first book that I have read that is totally frank about the scale of Allied battlefield crimes. Page after page has examples of German prisoners having been killed after capture. But as you know, it's only a war crime when a German shoots a prisoner, when it's the other way round then "it's understandable after an intense battle".
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and how many of these allied soldiers where ORDERED to shoot prisoners after being captured? or in the case of Kurt Meyerit's only a war crime when a German shoots a prisoner, when it's the other way round then "it's understandable after an intense battle".
are their any examples in Bevors book where crimes committed where not individual or isolated but where indeed committed by troops ordered to do sofound guilty of “inciting and counselling” his troops to deny quarter, ordering the deaths of the seven prisoners shot in the abbey garden, and being “responsible for the killing of prisoners of war” in the deaths of 23 Canadian soldiers
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please provide link as to this soldier being sought for souvenirs and not for military information, i.e.maps, documents...someone forgot his hat, weapon etc. if it was indeed a souvenir hunt...unsure if we can take the word of YORKSHIRE MAN and his personal view of the photo listed in the forum you quoted and imaged from as proof of what conspired but instead malicious here sayAlifRafikKhan wrote:Gruesome reality : a fallen young Panzergrenadier of the 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend" in Normandy shortly after the invasion of June 6th 1944. As you can see the soldier has already been checked for souvenirs! What you see lying around to his right are actually playing cards...
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