Hitler orders fight to the end

28th November 1944: Hitler's latest order is a mark of the desperation situation that his regime now faces

The Volkssturm “people's storm” parade before Jozef Goebbels in Berlin in November 1944. The mass of new ‘volunteers’ was presented as a popular response to the threat to Germany - but it was compulsory service for men aged 16 - 60 not yet in the Wehrmacht.

It was a central part of the Nazi belief system that the "power of the will" could overcome otherw…