Osprey Warrior 110 Hitler's Home Guard Volkssturmmann. Western front 1944-45

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Osprey Warrior 110 Hitler's Home Guard Volkssturmmann. Western front 1944-45

Osprey Warrior 110 Hitler's Home Guard Volkssturmmann. Western front 1944-45

Автор: David K. Yelton Sean O Brogain

Издательство: Osprey Publishing

ISBN 1-84603-013-7

Год издания: 2006

Язык: английский

Страниц: 64

Формат: PDF

Размер: 47 Mb

Изображения: черно-белые фото, цветные рисунки

The summer of 1944 had brought two sledgehammer blows against the Third Reich: the invasion of Normandy and Operation Bagration or, as the Germans descriptively named it, the Destruction of Army Group Center. Hitler and his lieutenants believed that Nazi Germany needed additional troops and a fanaticization of its will to reverse the course of the war, and part of their response was the creation of the German Volkssturm. This militia consisted of all civilian German men aged 16 to 60 and existed to help the armed forces, the Wehrmacht, wage a bitter struggle for every city, town, and village in Germany. Because creating this resistance would require fanatical commitment, Hitler chose to have the Nazi Party organize and administer the force in the belief that the Party had superior motivational expertise.