2.5 million Soviet troops were in the city, and in addition to their vengeful rage, the army had 40,000 cannons, 6,000 tanks and 7,000 aircraft. Berlin's defenses were in disarray, the defensive armies were patchworked, the city was cut off from electricity and water due to air raids, and food was scarce.
Hitler's goal was to conquer Europe, but he never wanted to defend Berlin, and it was too late for him to think about it. But Hitler could not accept the defeat, the defense force was not enough, so he ordered the organization of civilian resistance, and even the 14-year-old child was sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder to "bury" the collapsing Third Reich.
Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels declared, "All mothers must do everything in their power for the future of our people, as soon as the Fuehrer gives an order." "But it is clear that Hitler is destroying the future of his children. Many civilians in Berlin have portraits of children killed in the Soviet Union hanging in front of the houses, silently praying in front of the statues for the fall of the Nazi regime so that the remaining children will not be sent to the front.
Some simply publicly denounced the Nazis for committing child cruelty, exploiting the fanaticism of the bewildered Hitler Youth while threatening more boys to join it with the death penalty. In schools, brave teachers risk being accused of teaching students ways to avoid being called.
A man named Eric in the Plainslauer district of Berlin? Schmitek's 14-year-old boy was recruited as an "anti-aircraft gun assistant" and ordered to report to the barracks. Previously, his father had been called into the army, and his mother came to the barracks with him with great sadness. Children enter the barracks more in amazement than fear.
Three days later, the children were assigned to a unit stationed at the National Stadium, in the western part of the city, next to the Olympic Stadium. But on the way there, he remembered what his father had told him when he returned from the Eastern Front—that he now had to take responsibility for the family. He decided to run away and find a place to hide until the end of the war. Most of his peers in this unit later lost their lives in the war.
He told the children: "We only have two choices: victory or defeat. He described a powerful "V-weapon" that was enough to defeat the Soviets. At his instigation, young people are very eager for the suicidal task to be carried out. Another "lightning" detachment of female soldiers formed by the Nazi Party also trained at the national sports field, adding a romantic atmosphere to the boys.
At this time, the Nazis were still preparing a female reinforcement called the "Defense Aid Army". The maidens swore allegiance, and the oath began with the following: "I swear an oath to the great Commander of the Wehrmacht, Adolf Hitler. Hitler remained loyal and obedient. "These vows sound like a grand mass wedding
But these temporary forces did not get any superweapons, they only got useless weapons like the "People's Grenade No. 45". The grenade is just a piece of cement wrapped in a little explosive and a No. 8 detonator, and it is more dangerous to the thrower than to the target. Another squad of officer school cadets received only some rifles and five rounds of ammunition each captured from the French army in 1940, and they were going to face the Soviet Guards Tank Army. The so-called "armored death squads" were just a group of children carrying old grenade launchers that Nazi officers wanted them to fight tanks on foot.