Word: volkssturm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took off on a quixotic swing to rally the shattered Wehrmacht forces around the capital. He relished the experience: hasty lunches of pea soup in a forest command post, ducking into ditches to avoid strafing Allied fighters, brave speeches to the scared kids and old men in ill-fitting Volkssturm helmets who had been left to defend a crossroads. Keitel devotes five fat paragraphs to a description of how he revamped the defenses of Rathenow, a sleepy hamlet that was threatened by the Russians...