German Child Soldiers Braced for Execution Am
Автор: WW2 Remembering
Загружено: 2026-01-13
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They expected a bullet; they received a banquet. In the final, desperate days of April 1945, the collapsing Third Reich deployed the Volkssturm a militia of trembling teenagers and elderly men to stall the Allied juggernaut. Captured in the ruins of the Ruhr Pocket, these boy soldiers, some as young as fourteen, stood before the U.S. 9th Army certain that execution awaited them.
Declassified field reports and veteran memoirs reveal a startling subversion of the rules of engagement. Instead of the firing squad, American GIs fueled by a logistics machine that delivered 6 million tons of supplies monthly handed out warm hamburgers and chocolate. This psychological warfare through humanity shattered the Nazi propaganda of "American savagery." For these children, the war didn't end with a bang, but with the surreal taste of a world they were told didn't exist.
The ultimate irony of the European Theater was that the most powerful weapon of the American arsenal wasn't the M1 Garand, but a simple gesture of mercy.
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