As casualties mounted during the Second World War, Germany was forced to call up ever-younger conscripts to fill the ranks of the Wehrmacht. So dire was the situation at the end of 1944, that boys born in 1928 were called up to serve the Fatherland. They were 15 or 16 years old and had grown … Continue reading Wilhelm ‘Willi’ Hübner: One of the Youngest Recipients of the Iron Cross, 1945