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The German Ploughboys Who Defied the SS
By late 1944, Hitler’s Germany was collapsing under a desperate mobilization that swept up children and old men. This episode explores the tragic figure of Peter Kuhn, a sixteen-year-old member of the Volkssturm forced to fight against his will in Breslau. We examine how Joseph Goebbels’ propaganda machine tried to transform these reluctant boys into fanatical defenders of the Reich, only for them to face the brutal reality of Soviet artillery and American armor. Through personal diaries and military records, we uncover the internal resistance of ordinary Germans who refused to die for a lost…
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