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Article: Player in Germany's Peaceful Revolution.(Alfred Radeloff)(Statistical Data Included)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Little Alfred Radeloff was plucked from his family in the eastern German city of Dessau at the age of nine and placed in a school 300 miles away designed to make him the pride of Nazi Germany.
And the institution's sophisticated indoctrination achieved its purpose: By age 11, in 1945, young Alfred had been molded into the most devoted disciple of Adolf Hitler possible.
In the waning days of World War II, as the German armies collapsed in the vise of the advancing forces of the Soviet Union from the east and the American, French, and British troops from the west, Alfred and other volunteers from among his classmates were rushed to the front lines in a ...