Werwolf

thumb|Werwolf Pennon|pennant with the [[Wolfsangel symbol in horizontal form]]

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inception: 1944-00-00

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Nomenclature
Operations
Propaganda and Radio Werwolf
Recruits
Weaponry and tactics
Wartime capture of Werwolf personnel
Assessment by historians
Alleged Werwolf actions
Allied reprisals
Soviet reprisals
American reprisals
British reprisals
Similar organizations
In Germany
In Denmark
In Yugoslavia
Comparison to Second Iraq War
In popular culture
See also
References
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

thumb|Werwolf Pennon|pennant with the [[Wolfsangel symbol in horizontal form]]

Werwolf (, German for "werewolf") was a Nazi plan which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany in parallel with the Wehrmacht fighting in front of the lines. There is some argument that the plan, and subsequent reports of guerrilla activities, were created by Joseph Goebbels through propaganda disseminated in the waning weeks of the war through his "Radio Werwolf," something that was not connected in any way with the military unit.