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2007-08-19 19:49:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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Yes - - - - by the end of the war Hiter youth as young as fourteen but likely as young as twelve were fighting in the streets of Berlin against the Russians and throughout Germany Hitler Youth fought alongside regular troops. In fact one of Hitler's last acts to be photographed was the awarding of Iron Crosses to a group of Hitler Youth.

You should seek out a book entitled 'In Hitler's Bunker' A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days," by Armin D. Lehmann with Tim Caroll.

Peace------------------------

PS Fighting implies dying - - - and yes Hitler Youth died fighting against Brits and Americans......

2007-08-19 20:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by JVHawai'i 7 · 3 0

Yes. by the time of D-Day alot of the German army was made up of young boys and old men.

I had the honour of being an Honorary member of the Normandy Veterans Association here in Britain (the youngest member in the country I believe- I joined at 23) until the local branch was disbanded this year due to dwindling numbers of living Vets and I have heared many personal accounts of those men waking up with the faces of the young boys they killed - some,they believed to be as young as 12 - haunting their dreams.

Some of the stories they told make Private Ryan look like a movie about life at school!!

2007-08-20 21:08:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Can't put it better than the above answer but did just want to suggest two other sources

Requiem for a German Past: A Boyhood among the Nazis
by Jurgen Herbst

Blood and Honor
by: Reinhold Kerstan

both are other first hand accounts of German boys who were part of the Hitler Youth and survived the war to write their memoirs

2007-08-20 03:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by Hist-Nerd1 3 · 2 0

MY father was with the 32 Infantry Division, Rainbow Division. He was on the Siegfried Line for 82 days under fire, wounded twice. This line was a last ditch defense for the Germans to keep the Allies out of the "motherland" it was defended by young Hitler group kids, as young as thirteen years old, there would be up to five kids on one gun, when one was shot, another picked up the gun, that's how it went.

2007-08-20 06:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 0 0

Yes, thousands of them were used to defend Germany during 1945

2007-08-20 12:30:04 · answer #5 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0 0

they would have killed members of the HJ SS division in combat

2007-08-20 05:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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