Posted on 10/30/2024 1:47:27 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
In 1945, Hitler continued to deny the apparent defeat that awaited him. In a final insane attempt to turn the tide of the war and make up for the lack of soldiers old enough to go into battle, he recruited massively from among the Hitler Youth, enlisting children as young as 12 years old. These little soldiers were sent to fight battles that they had no hope of winning. Nonetheless, as a rule, they fought zealously. As the Allied troops advanced, they were shocked to discover that there were also children among the countless German prisoners.
Around 10 000 of these young fighters, who were both persecutors and victims, would be taken prisoner by the American Army and sent to Attichy POW camp in France. The Nazi Regime had trained these children. Yet, astonishingly, the Americans immediately considered and treated them as victims. An original and little-known re-education program started at Attichy Camp to steer them towards an attitude of tolerance and democracy. It was called "Baby Cages". Winfried Börsch was held there. At the time, he was 16 years old.
Today, he'll tell us how he ran away and got arrested before being sent to the "Baby Cages". His experience reflects the fate of thousands of other child soldiers. His testimony along with numerous archive images will take us deep into the heart of Nazi indoctrination and the ensuing liberation of the minds of these young children, who had been forced into being a part of a devastating system.
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In many documented cases, the Mothers of these kids walked up to the front line and dragged them home by their ears.
All radical islamist are training their children to hate America and Israel.
“All radical islamist are training their children to hate America and Israel.”
That job here falls upon Democrat so-called educators.
Obviously.
Those mooselimb indoctrinators are just pure evil.
Indeed.
Only on the front line at the very end. Before that they had been sent to backfill anti-aircraft and rear area soldiers to free up men for the front lines. (That’s how the last Roman Catholic Pope got his war experience with an anti-aircraft unit). One source I saw gave January 1943 for the HJ replacing the regulars but that was when they started working as Flak helpers, not when they replaced the regulars. I recall one Luftwaffe guy assigned to a searchlight battery who didn’t get sent to the front until late 1944.
They had the dad do that in Untergang with his son.
My mother’s cousin was one of those kids. He was fifteen. Got captured by Americans in the last week. When they found out how old he was, they kicked him in the ass and told him to go home.
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And you know what ultimately happened to the dad.
I don’t recall what happened to the dad. Just the son in tears that he couldn’t die for the “fatherland” because of his mean old dad who lost his hand in combat.
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