HITLER’S FORGOTTEN CHILD ARMY

It was Hitler’s last line of defence, a “child army” composed of 16- and 17-year-old Hitler Youth members who were fast-tracked through military training to serve as “soldiers” in the spring of 1945, only to be vainly sacrificed in a war that was already lost. In reality, most of these children were not “capable of bearing arms”. And they often paid the highest price for their naive eagerness to serve. This book tells the moving stories of ten of the boys caught up in the last moments of World War II.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 01.02.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-63025-5
  • 288 Pages
  • Authors: Harald StutteGünter Lucks

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HITLER’S FORGOTTEN CHILD ARMY
Harald Stutte Günter Lucks HITLER’S FORGOTTEN CHILD ARMY
Harald Stutte
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Harald Stutte

Harald Stutte is a historian, political editor at the Hamburger Morgenpost and author of various travel magazines. He was awarded the Journalism Prize of the Association of German Travel Journalists. He lives in Hamburg.

Harald Stutte
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Günter Lucks

Günter Luck s, born in 1928, worked for the German Mail until 1955 and changed into the Graphic Art afterwards. From 1992 he was employed by Axel Springer in Hamburg until he retired. He refused an invitation by the Federal Armed Forces to join them as an Officer after their foundation.