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305 - A Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army

The WW2 Podcast by Angus Wallace

May 6, 202601:03:51Society & Culture

In the final months of the Second World War, as the Third Reich collapsed in on itself, boys were sent to the front to hold back the Red Army. Among them was fourteen-year-old Willi Langbein. He had grown up under Nazism...

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305 - A Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army is an episode from The WW2 Podcast by Angus Wallace. In the final months of the Second World War, as the Third Reich collapsed in on itself, boys were sent to the front to hold back the Red Army. Among t...

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