"Volksgrenadier Assault platoons Review" Topic

"At the end of 1944 the German army started yet another major reorganisation of their ground forces. While often viewed as too little too late, the reality was that their situation was pretty dire, and they needed to reorganise anyway. They'd been strategically on the back foot ever since Kursk in mid-43, and early that year they'd suffered two horrendous defeats with Normandy in the west and the even bigger catastrophe of Bagration in the east. As the summer faded the Wehrmacht was on the ropes.

Scrounging manpower from anywhere they could find it, including pillaging the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine ranks they formed the infantry into a new model with the very ideological name of Volksgrenadiers. The word "volk" is related to the English word "folk" but the Nazis used it with connotations of patriotism, ethnic identity, and solidarity. The idea here was similar to the "Volksturm" volunteer auxiliaries, with the Nazi project crashing down all around them their masters appealed to Germans' desire to protect their people from the onslaught…"
Full Review here
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