Volksgrenadier
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Search complete. 5 mentions across 3 episodes found for "Volksgrenadier".
Sep 30, 2026
U.S. Army History and Heritage Podcast Season 3 Ep 6
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50:17James EllmanGUEST
in the South, and that was there to protect the Panzer Army's left flank.
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50:22James EllmanGUEST
And the 7th Army was smaller, and it was mostly newer, Volksgrenadier divisions, which were filled out with young teenagers, overage men, and previously wounded men, many with PTSD, who had been put on leave.
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50:34James EllmanGUEST
So Patton's army had to do a lot of hard fighting.
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50:37James EllmanGUEST
He was very effective and deserves a lot of credit.
320 - Patton Reconsidered
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60:31James EllmanGUEST
There was nothing to be gained." And luckily for us, that's where Hitler decided to attack.
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60:37James EllmanGUEST
He wasted the 5th and 6th Panzer Army and to the south, the 7th Army, which was mostly Volksgrenadier infantry.
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60:44James EllmanGUEST
That's what Patton was fighting to a great extent, getting through the Ardennes on their way, hopefully, to get to Antwerp.
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60:52James EllmanGUEST
But they didn't even have enough fuel to get out of the Ardennes, much as less get to Antwerp, and they'd also have to fight through a whole bunch of armies, and Eisenhower had effectively another whole field army of reserves Now, we definitely know most famously that Patton turned his army 90 degrees and saved Bastogne and saved the first, uh, 101st, uh, Airborne Division.
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62:55James EllmanGUEST
Did they need saving? No, they would've held on.
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62:57James EllmanGUEST
And if you really look at the Battle of the Bulge, Battle of the Bulge was won by the men of the 1st Army who defended the northern part of the salient against the 5th Panzer Army and the 6th Panzer Army that had all the German armor, and Patton was mostly, to a great extent, up against the men of the 7th Army, German 7th Army.
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63:18James EllmanGUEST
They were mostly Volksgrenadier units, which were new, weak units filled out with young teenagers and old men.
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63:27James EllmanGUEST
Kind of our army.
The Official Warlord Games Podcast, Ep 81, New Units For Konflikt '47 .mp3
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88:35BradHOST
And as they say, they're not done with the United States, though, they say in the article, they'll be getting more exciting updates with model releases in the not too distant future.
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88:49BradHOST
bad uh we also have the axis who have a similar rule the hand of the green vault is now limited to veteran platoon and company commanders uh just like the guts rule was above um and the volks grenadier squad i know many people will be happy about this i know some uh axis players were talking about this at cancon last year um they were saying that they wish there was the the The Volksgrenadier squads could be made smaller to accommodate the SDKFZ-250 transport.
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89:22BradHOST
Now they are.
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89:24BradHOST
So you can fit your Volksgrenadier in the SDKFZ-250.
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89:29BradHOST
um it's a good thing i just bought an sd cam said 250. um we also have um british can now incorporate units from the armies of the british commonwealth as well i know i'm excited because now my indian carriers can be used in my indian army for conflict 47 amazing and the wording for the corrosive shell active rift enhancement for the Bombardier has been adjusted so that the Rift die is exhausted after its use to better synergize with data transmission in line with first-off-the-line automated units.
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90:06BradHOST
Now, we will have to talk more about that later, but the automaton platoon for the British, I have it, I own it, it is awesome.