Editing Werwolf (section)

===Recruits===
''[[Gauleiter]]s'' were to suggest suitable recruits, who would then be trained at secret locations in the Rhineland and Berlin. The chief training centre in the West was at Hülchrath Castle near [[Erkelenz]], which by early 1945 was training around 200 recruits mostly drawn from the [[Hitler Youth]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Dearn | first = Alan |author2=Elizabeth Sharp  | title = The Hitler Youth 1933–45 | publisher = [[Osprey Publishing]] | year = 2006 | page = 16 | isbn = 1-84176-874-X}}</ref>

Werwolf originally had about five thousand members recruited from the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] and the Hitler Youth. These recruits were specially trained in guerrilla tactics. Operation Werwolf went so far as to establish [[front companies]] to ensure continued fighting in those areas of Germany that were occupied (all of the "front companies" were discovered and shut down within eight months).{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} However, as it became clear that the reputedly impregnable [[Alpine Fortress]], from which operations were to be directed by the Nazi leadership if the rest of Germany was occupied, was yet another delusion, Werwolf was converted into a [[terrorist]] organisation in the last few weeks of the war.