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Herbert Killian, born in Korneuburg, Austria, 1926. “For 12 years, I was in the Hitler Youth. I was not fanatical, but I did admire the regime. At 15 I was conscripted. By 1943, I was in the Luftwaffe. By December 1944, I was in a military unit that had to march from Germany to Belgium because all the means of transport had been destroyed. We were starving. We spent our whole journey hunting deer to feed the soldiers. We had to sew our own winter clothes out of curtains and cushions. I am so lucky to have survived”. (Photo and caption by Sasha Maslov)
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