Flakhelfer to Grenadier: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, 1943-1945
by Karl Heinz Schlesier
On January 7 1943, the German Government, in order to free adult soldiers for frontline duty, ordered that all male students of secondary schools born in 1926 and 1927 be drafted into anti-air craft service in the homeland. Students were to arrive in batteries on February 18 1943.