...were these Hitlerjugend boys according to Dr. Joseph Goebbels trying to conventionalize the HJ deployment as a heroic epic.

''Undaunted by death and armed with Panzerfausts&quot;

Members of a Volksgrenadier-Division near Breslau/Lower Silesia. Except for their means of transportation these soldiers are well equipped with Panzerfausts and assault guns, also mind their reversible tan-patterned camo jackets.

Tank hunters on bikes II

Volkssturm members from Gleiwitz/Upper Silesia in their positions at Ratibor awaiting the Soviet attack, February 2, 1945. (Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H29033)

''Undaunted by death and armed with Panzerfausts&quot;

''Undaunted by death and armed with Panzerfausts"