Post-war Germany and the Werwolves

[Story]

Saw this, no previous thread -

Revealed: How Nazi officers led by top general formed secret army AFTER the war and planned to overthrow Allies who occupied Germany

Around 2,000 soldiers from Hitler's Wehrmacht formed the covert group
They stockpiled weapons, spied, and aimed to amass 40,000 members
Soldiers planned to attack East then West Germany and 'restore honour'
Details of the force were discovered in old German intelligence files


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ow-Allies-occupied-Germany.html#ixzz32IUc87Wh

Seems related to this -

Background: Werner Naumann, Goebbels’s top aide at the end of the war, sent out this interesting message by teletype to the Nazi Party’s regional propaganda offices in early April 1945. It calls on the remaining propagandists throughout Germany to devote their full efforts to building an underground resistance movement that would make Allied occupation unbearably costly. The Allies were in fact worried about the possibility of the Werewolf movement, but in the end Germans were more than ready to have the war over and not much came of this last-ditch effort.

The source: Werner Naumann, “Jetzt scheiden sich die Geister!” National Archives Microfilm Series T-311, roll 169, frames 1071-1074.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/naumann1.htm

 

[Smithy]

There's been a few books written on the Werwolf movement. They were far more effective as a propaganda idea than having any real operational efficiency. Post-war they were poorly organised and led, and that combined with the war-weariness of the German people meant that they didn't achieve much - there was a big demonstration in Stuttgart where 70,000 odd German workers walked off the job in protest against bombings being carried out by Werwolf. I'm fairly certain that around 40 Allied soldiers were killed by Werwolf in 2 years following the surrender.

 

[Stearmen]

There's been a few books written on the Werwolf movement. They were far more effective as a propaganda idea than having any real operational efficiency. Post-war they were poorly organised and led, and that combined with the war-weariness of the German people meant that they didn't achieve much - there was a big demonstration in Stuttgart where 70,000 odd German workers walked off the job in protest against bombings being carried out by Werwolf. I'm fairly certain that around 40 Allied soldiers were killed by Werwolf in 2 years following the surrender.

No American soldiers were ever proven to have been killed by the Werewolves. I believe, five American civilian workers were.

 

[Chas]

They obviously picked their targets. If they had killed Russians or Frenchmen there would have been retaliations, you can be sure of that.

 

[Lee Hutch]

If any of you like alternate histories, Harry Turtledove has a book called "The Man With the Iron Heart". The novel is about what would have happened had a Werewolf like organization been larger and more organized and effective. That said, it isn't the greatest book in the world. He gets very heavy handed with trying to make modern day comparisons. (Like having Werewolf suicide bombers, etc) But I just thought I would throw it out there in case anyone might be interested in reading it.