10-17-2009, 07:17 AM
Esteban,
This is not propaganda, and I have personally known one of them.
A former girlfriend's father was one of those kids. He followed his father in 1941 (sorry, I don't remember the exact circumstances of why and how that happened); when his father was killed in action in the vicinity of Vyborg (toward the end of 1942), the unit decided to care for him.
After the war, he stayed in the army, eventually rising to the rank of Major-General of tanks. A couple of years ago, he was still alive, although severely ill with Alzheimer.
Marc
This is not propaganda, and I have personally known one of them.
A former girlfriend's father was one of those kids. He followed his father in 1941 (sorry, I don't remember the exact circumstances of why and how that happened); when his father was killed in action in the vicinity of Vyborg (toward the end of 1942), the unit decided to care for him.
After the war, he stayed in the army, eventually rising to the rank of Major-General of tanks. A couple of years ago, he was still alive, although severely ill with Alzheimer.
Marc
