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The German Ploughboys Who Defied the SS
In this episode of The History of Germany, we explore the final, desperate days of World War II in Berlin. As the Soviet Red Army closed in during April and May 1945, Adolf Hitler ordered the creation of the Volkssturm, a militia composed of men aged sixteen to sixty who had previously been deemed unfit for service. This radical expansion of conscription caught the attention of Peter Kuhn, a young man from Breslau who found himself thrust into combat against his will. We examine how Joseph Goebbels leveraged the Hitlerjugend to mobilize these 'ploughboys' for a war that was already…
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