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The German Ploughboys Who Defied the SS
In the final, desperate months of World War II, as the Third Reich collapsed under the weight of its own crimes, a strange and unlikely resistance emerged from the ranks of the Hitler Youth. This episode explores the story of the Volkssturm, Germany's last-ditch militia of men too old or too young to fight, and specifically the teenage boys forced into uniform by Joseph Goebbels. We focus on Peter Kuhn, a Berlin teenager who refused to hand over his rifle to an SS officer, choosing instead to walk away from the front lines rather than commit suicide or murder civilians. Through personal…
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