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The Generation That Was Never Allowed to Be Children

Photograph of Joseph Goebbels awarding 16-year-old Hitler Youth Willi Hübner an Iron Cross for the defence of Lauban

From a ‘scouting club’ with 700 members to eight million child soldiers, and why none of them knew it was happening We haven’t really given much thought to the Hitler Youth yet. It’s actually quite striking, and unheard of today.…

Nick Ravenshade
August 1, 2026

Home Front & Society, WarCommons Deep Dives

A Nation That Never Yielded

Photograph taken by Sergeant Midgley and was provided by The Imperial War Museum. © IWM (BU 2887)/artistic rendition 2019.

How Ordinary People Became an Extraordinary Resistance Resistance movements were present throughout Europe during World War II. In some countries, these movements were more widespread than in others. In Germany, for example, there was virtually no widespread resistance movement, apart…

Nick Ravenshade
May 2, 2026

The Generation That Was Never Allowed to Be Children

A Nation That Never Yielded

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