Werwolf
![Werwolf pennant[1]](/Images/godic/202502/20/Werwolfwimpel.svg2334.png")
![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.](/Images/godic/202502/20/Hans-Adolf_Prützmann2334.jpg")
![9 March 1945: Goebbels awards a 16-year-old Hitler Youth, Willi Hübner, the Iron Cross for the defence of Lauban](/Images/godic/202502/20/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-J31305,_Auszeichnung_des_Hitlerjungen_Willi_Hübner2334.jpg")
![Franz Oppenhoff's grave in Aachen](/Images/godic/202502/20/OppenhoffgrabAachen_33232334.jpg")
Werwolf (pronounced[ˈveːɐ̯vɔlf], German for "werewolf") was the name given to 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. However Werwolf's propaganda value far outweighed its actual achievements.