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Offline Desert_Fox

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Old photo
« on: May 14, 2011, 03:40:39 PM »
I don't remember who, but some months ago someone here ask me about a photo where a very young kid (13/14 years old) appears with the uniform of Volksgrenadier during the Operation Market Garden.

Initially I couldn't find the photo, but now here you are.

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Offline Max 'DonXavi' von B.

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Re: Old photo
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 03:46:53 PM »
I remember young boys such as him being AA gun helpers (since 1944). Maybe that's why he was there.

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Re: Old photo
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 03:52:02 PM »
Is that a Sherman in the background?

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Re: Old photo
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 04:31:54 PM »
Yes, it is.

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Re: Old photo
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2011, 05:20:12 PM »
At the end of the war Germany had it's draft taking boys as young as 14-15 and as old as 58 (IIRC). They were desperate.
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Re: Old photo
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2011, 07:29:46 PM »
Wow, war is stupid. Killing men, women and children....  :'(

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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2011, 08:39:16 PM »
Wow, war is stupid. Killing men, women and children....  :'(
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Re: Old photo
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2011, 09:57:40 PM »
They seem to be captured. We got the sherman and two GI infront of them. So maybe if we are lucky he is just a kid who dressed up in a uniform? ;D *No, I know.*

Its really sad with using children as soldiers. I hope he survived the captivity and grew up and became a comedian or something and made people happy ;D

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