Werwolf
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Werwolf 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 fight
Obergruppenführer Hans-Adolf Prützmann (right) meets with Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, during Himmler's visit of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking in Ukraine (September 1942).
The front page of the April 1945 issue of Front und Heimat ("Front and Home: The German soldier's newspaper"), with the headline: "Werewolf is attacking!"
Franz Oppenhoff's grave in Aachen
Wolfsangel
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Wolfsangel or Crampon is a heraldic charge from mainly Germany and eastern France, which was inspired by medieval European wolf traps that consisted of a Z-shaped metal hook that was hung by a chain f
Werwolf
…Werwolf pennant with the Wolfsangel symbol in horizontal form Werwolf (pronounced , German for 'werewolf') was a Nazi plan which began development in 1944, to create a resistance force…
8th-century wolf hook from the Carolingian-era Villa Arnesburg in Lich, Germany
Reconstruction of a wolf hook (Z-shape) chained to a wolf anchor (crescent bar)
1299 seal of Countess Udilhild, née von Wolfach
Horizontal Wolfsangel as a mason's mark, 15th-century church