WW2: If Operation Werwolf had been given more support...

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For those that don't know, Operation Werwolf was the code name for the Nazi guerrilla forces that were to operate within occupied Germany as the Allies advanced. They were mostly comprised to Hitler Youth and S.S, who were to particpate in operations that range from arson to assassination. They had roughly 5,000 members, but they did not have the recources or mens morale to carry out their duties properly.

So what if they did have good men? what if they had good recources with a good supply of ammunition and fuel and ended up acting like guerillas to Allied forces, much like what the Germans encountered in their occupied countries.
 
They would have been far more effective had they waited as sleeper cells for 10-20 years to wait for the opportunity to strike like the IRA or the Red Army Fraction.
 
There are at least two books on on this subject, one of which I haven't read in awhile and the other is in my to do pile. But I think it could have been a real threat if there were German's who still wanted to fight. Much of the population was too busy trying to find food for their families to get involved...
 
In early-1945, a German listening to Nazis propaganda exorting citizens to undertake partisan activity recalled a joke when she was travelling in the Soviet Union by some Russians she met: Germans would only storm a train station if they were first entirely sure that tickets were being sold. The national culture of the time wasn't very well tuned for partisan activity.

In addition, whatever initial resources and manpower is allotted to them, a guerrilla movement is ultimately dependent on the active support of local population. And the Germans in 1945 were quite sick of the Nazis. They didn't hate them yet, per-say, but they were quite disillusioned and apathetic about it. A apathetic population isn't going to render any active assistance to guerrilla's. So any kind of Werwolf movement would only last year or two at most, regardless of the resources the Nazis allocate from the start. The bulk of the movement is more likely to wind up getting sold out to the WAllies and/or Soviets then achieving anything as significant as the partisans in other countries.
 
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