The volkssturm was the last ditch effort to prevent the axis defeat in the war, but as we know the defeat was garanteed since Kursk, and so most of us take it as a effort to slow down the german defeat
but the thing is, the people used on the volkssturm could have worked in the factories or in the collapsing infraestructure, plus they were barely armed to fight against the well trained soviet and allied armies, and so I came up with a question: Did the volkssturm did exactly the opposite of it's original intent and sped up the fall of the third reich? Because they had little combat value, and they were not working on the war effort by another means