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TIL about the Volkssturm, Nazi Germany’s last-ditch army that conscripted men 16-60 who weren’t already serving. As the situation got desperate in 1944-45, women and disabled WWI veterans were conscripted, armed with outdated and improvised weaponry, uniformed in just an armband and sent to Berlin.

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TIL about the Volkssturm, Nazi Germany’s last-ditch army that conscripted men 16-60 who weren’t already serving. As the situation got desperate in 1944-45, women and disabled WWI veterans were conscripted, armed with outdated and improvised weaponry, uniformed in just an armband and sent to Berlin.

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