Hitler Jugend
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Hitler Jugend
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The end of the war, we were 16 miles north of Oldenburg, we
pulled back from Holland through a place called Oldenburg
anyway, and we were 16 kilometres north of Oldenburg when the
war ended, and in a farm house again. And I, the night before
the war ended I, we hadn’t, we didn’t know at that point it was
going to end. We’d taken a bunch of German prisoners, I didn’t
know it but my carrier was out in the garage part of the house,
you know, and it was big, like a barn thing, cause a lot of the
barns were attached to the houses, and I had a wire run in with
a microphone, you know, sitting in with the infantry Colonel and
what not. And we were negotiating the surrender, something or
other. But I’d been inside for about an hour or two, you know,
and somebody says, “You better go out and tell so-and-so
something.” So I went out to the carrier and I had to push my
way in the dark through about a hundred Germans. They were all
in the, all surrendered, you know, but all in the thing. They
still had their rifles and everything. Yeah. And, and so, but
it was towards the end of the war and they didn’t want to fight
anymore, you know. Although, to end it all off, after the word
came down that at eight o’clock tomorrow morning, you know, is
the cease fire, and of course, nobody said anything. There was
no hats in the air and all this stuff. Everybody was so
relieved I guess, and, and having their own thoughts about
having survived and what’s gonna happen next and having to take
up again, you know, but then there was the whole lot of shooting
broke up out about a quarter of a mile, half a mile, you know,
away. And we went, “What’s that?” Somebody didn’t get the word,
you know. We had to be careful because not everybody was told
at once. Then we found out later that it was a group of German
Youth Hitler Jugend who were led in an attack against the
Canadians up a little while, a little way away up a hill. And
they said, “You know, we couldn’t stop them. We had to, we had
to kill them.” He, he said, “These kids were wearing German
army Grey Coats and they were tripping over them, they were too
long for them. And falling down as they went up the hill,” and
they had to stop this attack because it, it was coming in on
them, you know. So there was a whole lot of kids died,
you know, these German youth, unnecessarily.
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