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Collective Grave German Child Soldiers

At the end of the Second World War, younger boys were asked to defend Germany. On 26 April 1945, when the use of a Panzerfaust was explained, it exploded and 23 boys, at the age from 14 to 19, died. Their remains were buried together in a collective grave.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries
  • Photos: Nicole Geens & Huub Coopmans

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