Expressive shots of the Second World War. Part 2.

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Fifteen-year-old German anti-aircraft gunner from Hitler Youth - Hans Georg Henke, captured by soldiers of the 9th US Army in Giessen, Germany.

Shooting time: 03/29/1945
Location: Giessen, Germany

Fourteen-year-old German teenagers, soldiers from Hitler Youth, captured by units of the US Army in April 1945. Berstadt (Berstadt), Hessen, Germany.

Survey time: April 1945
Location: Berstadt, Germany

Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery rewards the young Hitler Youth members. This is one of the last photos of Hitler. In the center, awarded with the iron crosses of the 2nd class, young Silesian natives: the second from the right is Alfred Czech, 12, the third from the right is Wilhelm Hubner, 16, the latter is also known from photography with Dr. Goebbels in Lauban.

Picture taken: March 23, 1945

Adolf Hitler in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery rewards the young Hitler Youth members.

A boy from Hitler Youth, armed with a grenade launcher "panzerfaust." The so-called "The Last Hope of the Third Reich."

Sergeant Francis Daggertt with a German soldier, a soldier for only 15 years. Such in the German city of Kronach caught a dozen and a half.

Shot time: Kronach, Germany
Location: 27.04.1945

A column of prisoners in the street of Berlin. In the foreground "the last hope of Germany" is the boys from Hitler Youth and Volkssturm.

Survey time: may 1945
Location: Berlin, Germany

Soviet children are cleaning their boots to German soldiers. Bialystok, November 1942

Shooting time: November 1942
Location: Belostok, Belorussia, USSR

13-year-old scout-partisan Fedya Moshchev. Author's summary to the photo - "The boy found a German rifle"; it is probably a standard Mauser 98K with a sawn-off butt, so that the boy can more easily handle it.

Shooting time: October 1942

The commander of the rifle battalion, Major V. Romanenko (center), tells the Yugoslav guerrillas and residents of the village Starchevo (in the Belgrade area) about the combat affairs of the young intelligence officer, corporal Viti Zhaivoronka. In 1941, under the city of Nikolaev, Vitya left for the partisan detachment, in 1943 he voluntarily joined one of the units of the Red Army that stormed Dnepropetrovsk, and was awarded the Order of the Red Star for participation in the battles with fascists in Yugoslavian land. The 2 nd Ukrainian Front.

Stars. The 2 nd Ukrainian Front.
Shooting time: October 1944
Location: Starčevo, Yugoslavia
Author: Anatoly Egorov

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