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...Schluss! Schlussi" The radio spewed an endless stream of exhortation to all true Germans, of threats to traitors, cowards, shirkers, defeatists. All Army "stragglers" and all males over 13 were ordered to report for Volksstürm duty. The defense of the city was laid out in three zones: 1) the suburbs, including Potsdam, Erkner, Bernau, Lankwitz; 2) the outskirts of the city proper; 3) an inner citadel based on the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden. Even the zoo was fortified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Man Who Can't Surrender | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...speed, the Russian victory seemed easy. It had not been. East Prussians fought with Teutonic fury. There, if anywhere, the Germans had girded well for a last-ditch battle. Every settlement was a little fortress, every house a gun post. The Germans threw in everything: crack troops, Volksstürmer, trainees, inhabitants of towns, the largest number of buzz bombs yet rocketed against the Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A Bear Hug For History | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Funny. In the U.S., they have been the butt of easy jokes - but the British, still full of memories of the days when the Home Guard was the backbone of home defense, are not so ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: What It Means | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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