This is a sixteen-year-old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945. His father died in 1938 and his mother in 1944. He was crying from combat shock, having been mixed in with a regular infantry unit that had been overrun by the US.

This is a sixteen-year-old German soldier, Hans-Georg Henke, cries being captured by the US 9th Army in Germany on April 3, 1945. His father died in 1938 and his mother in 1944. He was crying from combat shock, having been mixed in with a regular infantry unit that had been overrun by the US.

December 31, 2020

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