Certainly not when it was as common as it was during WW2 for 16 and 17 year olds to lie about their age and enlist, or as things got down to the wire, take anyb

Certainly not when it was as common as it was during WW2 for 16 and 17 year olds to lie about their age and enlist, or as things got down to the wire, take anybody who could fit in a stahlhem and fire a panzerfaust into the Volksturm. My granfather was referred to as "old man" or "gramps" when he got drafted into the navy towards the end of the war. He was 25.