A Boy Soldier in Hitler's Army

Angus Wallace interviews Willi Langbein, who at fourteen was fighting Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front in March 1945 — one of the Hitler Youth boys thrown into the Reich's final collapse. The memoir detail is harrowing and specific: close-range anti-tank combat, Panzerfaust drills, wounds, and the disintegration of unit cohesion around him. A powerful hour-long first-person account of the war's ugliest final chapter.

Angus Wallace interviews someone about the story of Willi Langbein, a fourteen-year-old thrown into combat against Soviet tanks on the Eastern Front in March 1945. This is the war's endgame at ground level — Hitler Youth conscription, close-range anti-tank fighting, the Wehrmacht's terminal disintegration. An hour-long memoir-driven episode that gets at the human cost of the Reich's final months without losing sight of the military reality.