The Teenage SS Executioners That Shot Hundreds Of Allied Soldiers

Throughout the Second World War, the Nazis would use the Hitler Youth to become part of the German Army. Many teenagers were thrust on the battlefields of Europe, and one SS division which used 17 and 18 year olds in the heart of the battlefields of Normandy was the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. This was a division made up of teenagers who were born in 1926, and they were responsible for many war crimes including ones in which they executed Prisoners of War and civilians. The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend were responsible for the slaughter of Canadian soldiers in the Ardennes Abbey massacre, and they also burned and pillaged many French villages and towns and caused chaos. The majority of men in the Division were just teenagers but they were ardent Nazis and they would lay their lives down for Hitler. But they became some of the most dangerous soldiers of the Second World War. Join us today as we look at, ’The Teenage SS Executioners That Shot Hundreds Of Allied Soldiers'