Saturday 1 February 2020

16-year-old Willi Hübner being awarded the Iron Cross for bravery under fire, March 1945

Willi Hübner was a 16-year-old boy who served as a messenger in the Führer Grenadier Division and was awarded the Iron Cross for bravery under fire during the successful German attempt to recapture the town of Lauban during the Upper Silesian Offensive. He would survive the war and died in 2011. 

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