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<div>I do think of that ... there were more than likely several 17, 18, 19ish year old aged kids in those bunkers that more than likely weren't there fighting because that is what they really wanted to do, or believed in. Most of these kids were scared to death, and had no sense of the evil they were forced into combat to defend. In the vast majority of cases there were no options for these kids, and the closer the allies came to Berlin, the younger, and older the defenders became. It would be really hard to kill a 14 year old kid, but somebody had to do it "IF" it came down to it.
 
Nicholas Oresko is an American Hero that I could not have been, I would have died.
 
Thank you, Nicholas Oresko ... May you RIP.
 

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My grandfather served during the Battle of the Bulge, and expressed these same thoughts. So many of the enemy bodies he saw, or prisoners captured, were teenagers, haggard and hungry. Later he helped liberate a concentration camp, I forget which one, and said at first his sympathy for the enemy evaporated. But after thinking of his own blind loyalty, thankfully to a much more righteous cause, his anger channeled to those that marched so many men and boys to their death to further their evil agenda.

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