U.S. Military Police of the 44th Infantry Division interview two juvenile Wehrmacht soldiers following the surrender of divisions of the German19th Army in western Austria
. Towards the end of the war, with able-bodied German men in short supply, German and Austrian boys as young as 12 and 14 were being conscripted to fight in a last ditch effort to turn the tide of the war. Landeck, Tyrol-Vorarlberg, Ostmark (prior to the war and afterward: Landeck, Tyrol, Austria). 5 May 1945
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