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Go ahead, do it, we want to hear from you. Now, this episode is right at the end of the Second World War. It's

with Helene Munson, who's here to talk to us about Nazi child soldiers.

At the end of the Second World War, there were hundreds of thousands of German

children who were sent to the front lines in the largest mobilisation of underage combatants

by any country before or since.

Helene's father, Hanjunka, was one of these child soldiers.

Now, Helene's been able to track her father's journey from the age of nine and his status as a gifted

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