Word: volkssturm
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...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...
Press wires to and from neutral capitals thrummed with high-tension drama: rumors, sensations, travelers' tales. Police had fired on food rioters, it was said, and on demonstrators protesting the Volkssturm levies; the 55 and the Volkssturm had clashed; the Volkssturm had shot at refugee columns, mistaking them in the dark of night for Bolshevik invaders. Those long range airplanes which were to carry Nazi bigwigs to Japan had their engines turning over again. Goebbels, however, was carrying a vial of poison for use in case Berlin should be suddenly surrounded by Red paratroops. Officials at Tempelhof airdrome hysterically...
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...