Dragons, Nazis and Putin: children put German candidates through ringer

Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz face their toughest grilling of campaign at the hands of two 11-year-olds

When Germany elects a new government on 26 September the average voter age may be over 50, but a week and a half before polling day it is children who are asking the hard questions of the candidates who want to fill Angela Merkel's shoes.

Armin Laschet, of the outgoing chancellor's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Olaf Scholz, of the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD), were both left shifting in their seats in what has been hailed as their toughest grilling of the campaign trail - at the hands of two 11-year-olds.