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The German Ploughboys Who Defied the SS
While we often look to elite resistance fighters like Claus von Stauffenberg or the Abwehr, Episode 252 explores a different kind of courage: the Volkssturm. In October 1944, as the Red Army closed in on Berlin, Joseph Goebbels conscripted every able-bodied male aged fifteen to sixty into this last-ditch militia. We follow the story of Peter Kuhn, a young teacher from Breslau who was handed a Panzerfaust and ordered to hold the line against Soviet tanks he knew he could not stop. This episode examines the human reality of the Reichsjugendführer’s final mobilization, the moral dilemmas faced…
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