Werwolf! : The History of the National Socialist Guerrilla Movement, 1944-1946.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREIGN TERMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- 1 Gothic Guerrillas: The Bureau 'Prützmann' and the SS-Werwolf -- The Organization of the SS-Werwolf -- The Eastern Front -- The Western Front -- Organizational Problems -- Werwolf Terrorism -- Final Disintegration -- Postwar Activities -- 2 A Nursery Tale: The Hitler Youth and the Werwolf -- The Militarization of the Hitler Youth -- The Hitler Youth Guerrilla Program -- Regional Variants -- The Psychology of HJ Guerrillas -- Postwar Activities -- The Axmann Plan -- 3 A Werwolf War: The Military and the Kleinkrieg -- Guerrilla Warfare on the Eastern Front -- Improving Relations between the Army and the Werwolf -- Guerrilla Warfare along the Western Front -- Military Opinions Change -- 4 Reign of Terror: The Party and the Werwolf -- The Volkssturm -- The Party and Werwolf Propaganda -- Bormann and the Werwolf -- Party Cadres and Guerrilla Warfare -- Bormann's Cancellation of the Werwolf -- Party Capacities for Resistance -- Goebbels and the Werwolf -- Werwolf Radio -- Claims and Implicit Instructions -- Radicalization -- Adolescent Romanticism -- The End of Werwolf Radio -- 5 Werwolf Redoubts -- The Lüneburg Heath -- Schleswig-Holstein -- The Sauerland -- The Odenwald -- The Harz -- The Thuringian Forest -- The Bavarian and Bohemian Forests -- The Black Forest -- The Alps -- Forests in Brandenburg -- Schwarzenberg -- 6 The Werwolf along Germany's Periphery -- Alsace-Lorraine -- Eupen-Malmedy -- Denmark -- The Polish 'Western Territories' -- Czechia and the Sudetenland -- The South Tyrol -- 7 Western Allied and Soviet Reactions to the Werwolf -- Allied Occupation Policy -- Allied Justice -- Allied Reprisals -- Postwar Allied Control Measures -- Allied Military Strategy and the Threat of Guerrilla Warfare -- Soviet Occupation and Reprisal Policies.

8 Consequences and Significance of the Werwolf -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A: The Werwolf as a Research Problem: A Historiographical Essay -- Appendix B: Charts and Tables -- Chart 1: Dienststelle Prützmann -- Chart 2: The SS-Police Command Structure -- Chart 3: An Example of Regional Werwolf Organization - The Werwolf Staff of HSSPF Gutenberger -- Table 1: HSSPF in the Greater Reich, Autumn 1944 -- Table 2: Gauleiter in the Greater Reich, Summer 1944 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION SOURCES AND CREDITS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

The most complete history to date of the Nazi partisan resistance movement known as the Werwolf at the end of WWII. A fascinating history of great interest to general readers as well as to military historians.

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