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The German Ploughboys Who Defied the SS
In the final weeks of World War II, as Berlin burned and the Soviet Red Army closed in, Adolf Hitler ordered the creation of the Volkssturm—a desperate militia of men too young or too old to fight. Among them was Peter Kuhn, a fourteen-year-old boy from Breslau who refused to carry a Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket. Instead of following orders to defend a crumbling regime, he walked away from the front lines, joining other deserters in a quiet rebellion against the Nazi war machine. This episode explores the moral courage of these 'ploughboys' and how ordinary Germans, stripped of…
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