Young German soldier, stiffened in the death.
At his side an unused handgrenade, his gun and his helmet.
Sometimes whole schoolclasses enlisted together - and died together, as can be read in Remarque's famous war-novel All Quiet on the Western Front.
The Langemark cemetery in Flanders, Belgium, holds the bodies of numerous German kid-soldiers.
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