How Hitler Used “werewolves” to Slow Down Allied Progress and what That Has to do With Your Business

Hitler was a horrible, despicable, asshole. Yet even out of horrors can come great innovations such as the Volkswagen (the people's car). At the very end of WWII guerrilla fighters known as the werewolves were conceived to slow the advancing allied forces. Although they had very limited success they did sow fear wherever they went. As strange as you think it might be leaders can learn from the origins of the werewolf.Listen and enjoy this provocative episode.



American intelligence officer Frank Manuelstarted seeing the symbol near the end of World War II, etched across whitewalls in the Franconia region of Germany: a straight vertical line intersectedby a horizontal line with a hook on the end. “Most members of the CounterIntelligence Corps were of the opinion that it was merely a hastily drawnswastika,”



But Manuel knew otherwise. To him, themark referred to the Werewolves, German guerrilla fighters prepared “to strikedown the isolated soldier in his jeep, the MP on patrol, the fool who goesa-courting after dark, the Yankee braggart who takes a back road.”