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My Grandad always told me stories about WW2, this one is special.When he was a child he lived in Berlin and the russians were advancing,the children in the hitler youth were sent to defend every bridge ,one of these boys met my grandad and told him to join them and fight the russians,he was too young but he wanted adventures so he joined them he didnt worry about dying because Hitler had said that no army in the world would conquer germany,driven by Hitlers propaganda the boys set off,stole a uniform and went over to the bridge near his house, there he dug himself in .During the night the russians were already on the other side of the bridge ,they didnt worry thought because only a few young boys were defending the bridge and were not worried that the boys with pistols would destroy their tanks.So they threw a few granades over to the other side of the bridge ,the granades killed the boy next to my dad with splinters from the granades .My Grandad was still very young ,and seeing a boy die right next to him gave him the shock of his life.It was known that deserters were hanged and it could be seen on every Streetlamp on which soldiers were hanging.My grandad fled anyway .When he got back to the bomb shelter where his mum was he was still in full uniform .His mum had been so scared that her son was dead ,because he had not showed up at the day ,a man at the shelter quickly took off his uniform and dug it away near the house .

That was during the last days of the war when Hitler was already dead.Also these 2 days were the only soldier days for my grandad.

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