Word: volkssturm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...divisions, of which six were Panzer (armored) or Panzer Grenadier (motorized with some armor), and six were top-notch infantry. Practically all their known mobile reserves on this front-eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore...