These prisoners comprised a strange group when considered in reference to the Nazi "super race" and their ideology of racial purity and superiority. Among those taken were Czechs, Poles, Yugoslavs and even a group of Mongolians. The most dangerous was the group of German boys of sixteen or seventeen. They had grown up under Hitler’s regime, been thoroughly indoctrinated in his ideology, and couldn’t quite understand what had happened to them. They lived in dreams of their armies recapturing the beachhead and driving the Allies into the sea.