Word: volkssturm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What I liked to do was walk in the woods at Krumme Lanke," he said, laughing. "We used to have a fine time there. Weisst du, in the woods were still lying many corpses-some Wehrmacht and a few Volkssturm and many Russians...
...Yeah? Plenty of women are members of the SS and Volkssturm. And look at what you Germans did to people in every country where your Army went...
These men could be depended on to fight hard-and they did. Even the Volkssturm fighting alongside them performed well. The pocket was believed to be plentifully supplied with ammunition, gasoline and food. It was thickly studded with towns and cities-easy to defend, hard to take...
...Mobilization of a National Volunteer Army - the Jap version of the Nazi Volkssturm - to include all save "the aged, the sick, the very young and pregnant women...
Himmler is the creator and chief of the SS (the Schutzstaffel, or black-uniformed "Elite Guard"), as well as the infamous secret police, the Gestapo. He is also Reich Minister of the Interior, and Reich Minister of Home Defense. The Volkssturm and the Volksgrenadiere (TIME, Dec. 25) are his creations, and their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac...