Armanee terrace condominium joint management body My squad occupied four of these bunkers, each one accommodating fifteen recruits. They were crowded into bunkers half buried in a nearby field. The accommodation provided for the recruits - mostly young lads of sixteen or seventeen - was rather more primitive. Hardly a pleasant word passed between us and, despite the onset of winter, I was always relieved to get out of that house in the morning. They even filed a false complaint against me for messing the outside toilet during a party in the run up to Christmas. He worked in the Kompanie office and somehow managed to supply our hosts with little gifts of cake or wine but they looked at me with different eyes, making it very clear that I was not a welcome guest. I shared a billet with a fellow Unterscharfuhrer in the house of a local farmer who treated him as if he were a long lost Joseph, newly found. In late November he found himself pressed back into service to oversee basic training.

Now boys of 16 and 17 were being called up into the Wehrmacht and receiving only the most basic training before being sent to the front.Д®rwin Bartmann was a veteran of the Eastern Front, who had spent the last eighteen months recovering from wounds. In October the Nazis had announced the creation of the Volkssturm, a militia force outside the main Wehrmacht, for men and boys from 13 to 60 not yet serving in the armed forces. Yet the circumstances in Germany were becoming ever more desperate. The scale of casualties was causing concern amongst the Allies, with the British in particular now running out of men to replace losses.

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