Werwolf

  • Werewolf
Identifier
645
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

Dates of Existence

Founded in 1944

History

Werwolf was founded by Heinrich Himmler in 1944 when it became clear Germany would be invaded. The Werwolf guerrilla movement was given the task of slowing down the Allied advance to allow time for the success of negotiations, or 'wonder weapons’. Staying behind in territory occupied by the Allies, its mission was to carry out acts of sabotage, arson, and assassination, both of enemy troops and of 'defeatist' Germans.

Places

  • Founded in Germany.

Sources

  • The last Nazis : SS Werewolf guerilla resistance in Europe 1944-1947 / P. Biddiscombe. - Toronto, 1998. - p.