🎧The Boy Who Fought for the Nazis
🎧 Warfare • 33m
At the end of the Second World War there were hundreds of thousands of German children who were sent to the frontlines in the largest mobilisation of underage combatants in history.
In this episode James chats to Helene Munson, whose father was one of these child soldiers, about the indoctrination he was subjected to and the unthinkable perils he faced on the Eastern Front as a teenage boy.
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