M44 Dot Tunic and Volkssturm

[EsWolltEinMadchenFruhAufstehn]

Did the Volkssturm use the SS-Dot M44 tunic and pants?

[Adrian Stevenson]

Highly unlikely.

The Volkssturm wore whatever was at hand.

Cheers, Ade.

[Gunny Hartmann]

I don't think they would have wanted to be mistaken for waffen ss troops.

[Adam M]

I think they mainly wore civilian clothes and the volkssturm armband.

[lebus12]

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For the uniform, they have the armband, sometimes helmets.
Cheers,
Michel

[Friedrich-Berthold]

Highly unlikely.

The Volkssturm wore whatever was at hand.

Cheers, Ade.

The Yelton book on the Volksturm analyzes this issue in detail.

[Alexander]

Efforts were made to supply uniforms to the Volkssturm, usually surplus Luftwaffe and Heer uniforms. Thus many Volkssturm would have worn a mix of civilian and military clothing. They had their own rank system as well. I would guess that supplies of camo uniforms would have gone straight to fighting units as opposed to the Volkssturm, especially SS camo. I suppose that the Volkssturm members, by the end of the war, would have been aware that Waffen SS prisoners were often ill treated at best, so I doubt that they would have taken the risk of being identified as a SS soldier.

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[Gunny Hartmann]

"so I doubt that they would have taken the risk of being identified as a SS soldier"
Indeed so, panzer crews were often shot after being captured on the eastern front, the soviets mistaking them for SS due to their totenkopf insignia.