No officer ever worked harder at perfecting both the physical training and the indoctrination of his men.
“You are young,” he said, addressing the massed regiment for the first time. “Your membership in the Hitler Jugend is the only guarantee I need of your faithfulness, your loyalty and your understanding of the political causes involved in this hard and bitter struggle on which you are about to stake your lives. But because you are young, it is my duty and the duty of your officers to see that nothing is overlooked in your military orientation, your military philosophy, your military understanding.”
He imposed Spartan rules, which no one complained of except in the willing, jesting spirit of an irrepressible youngster like Dietrich Wulff. For all men in the regiment there was to be an
