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Willi hubner biography

          Willi Hübner was..

          Wilhelm 'Willi' Hübner - one of the youngest recipients of the Iron Cross, 1945

          Dr. Goebbels, Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda), visiting Lauban shortly after the liberation with the camera crews of the Wochenschau.

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        1. Willi Hübner (April 12, ) survived the war and settled in Landshut, Bavaria, becoming a good engine mechanic.
        2. Willi Hübner was.
        3. Wilhelm Hübner was 16 years of age when he received the Eisernes Kreuz 2.
        4. Hubner was first decorated by Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph P. Goebbels (October 29, – May 1, ) in Lauban, a German city retaken by the Nazis on.

          5. Here he is seen congratulating the 16-year-old Willi Hübner.

          As casualties mounted during the Second World War, Germany was forced to call up ever-younger conscripts to fill the ranks of the Wehrmacht. So dire was the situation at the end of 1944, that boys born in 1928 were called up to serve the Fatherland.

          They were 15 or 16 years old and had grown up in the shadow of Nazism.

          Each would have spent their teenage years in the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) preparing them for military service.

          The net result of this was a cadre of youths that grew up surrounded by Nazi propaganda and were called up to serve the Vaterland they had been raised and trained to defend.

          In many cases, th