The German youth international, who joined Liverpool from Borussia Dortmund in 2008, helped the Anfield club's to the 2009 FA Youth Cup final.

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As a young German he joined Hitler Youth at the age of 14, as was mandatory at the time.

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His immediate predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, came of age in Nazi Germany and, like other people of his generation, was a member of the Hitler Youth and served in the German military.

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Middle-aged Lorenzo is cosily retired and living in Denmark with a wife and child, when a German anarchist newspaper asks him to revisit his radical youth.

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The report from the Youth Olympics working group, headed by German Olympic silver medallist and world champion fencer Claudia Bokel, praised Glasgow's bid for its use of existing venues and for drawing on the experience of both the Commonwealth Games and last year's Olympic Games in London.

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There are great expectations for what the German Pope, who served - although unwilling - in the Hitler Youth, will say.

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And the U.S. based CTC Ten Foundation and German funded Amandla EduFootball that work together to provide educational soccer programs to at-risk youth in Cape Town.

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The youth of Great Britain, especially those who lived in southern counties vulnerable to German bombardment were evacuated en masse to the more northerly regions of the country.

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