5 results found for “Volkssturm”

In the last days of Germany's war, many desperate civilians were drafted into the Volksturm to defend Berlin. Armed with whatever they could lay their hands on, old men, wounded soldiers, and even those too young for regular service were expected to hold back...

Formed around a core of Veteran Troops and armed with the new StG44, the Volksgrenadiers head to battle in defense of their homeland! After suffering a double loss (both Army group Center in Operation Bagration, and the Fifth Panzer Army to the Allies in...

The fearsome Sturmtiger was designed to devastate towns. Armed with a naval rocket launcher not many were built but it did see action in the crushing of the Warsaw uprising, and on both Western and Eastern fronts from late 1943 onwards. It's vast bulk and...

As World War 2 entered its final stages the ever resourceful German units on the ground, starved of supplies, turned to using whatever was at hand - the results turning into unusual and unclassified one off examples. Fast mobile weaponry such as this can...

Fortifications often prove costly to attack, and difficult to destroy. None more so perhaps than the Pantherturm! From 1943, Panther turrets were mounted in fixed fortifications; some were normal production models, but most were made specifically for the task, with additional roof armour to...