They were young, many only 18, when the incomprehensible evil of the world engulfed them. Surely not understanding it, and, yet, knowing it for what it was, they chose to die fighting it. And evil stumbled back astonished, and then crushed them; but history had taken note of what these heroes did, so they will live in our memory, while the evil that they fought is now but a rank name: National Socialism.