Their die hard guerilla warfare program was called Werewolf. To be implemented effectively it required three things 1) arms caches, 2) The National Redoubt in the Bavarian Alps & 3) True believers to carry on the fight.
It failed because very few of the arms caches were actually in place (Speer takes credit for that. Historians now think he was exaggerating!) The National Redoubt was never built. (I think Speer takes credit for that also! Again questionable!) Given 1) & 2) didn’t happen and it even became plain to True Believers that 1) & 2) didn’t happen so their numbers tailed off and the whole thing fizzled out in a few years.
Saddam did some similar in Iraq, much more successfully!
I have a 1943 p 38 luger that came from one of those stashes. I bought it at the px on Camp Lejeune around 90 or 91. It seems when the iron curtain fell and East Germany was starting to be developed some of these stashes were found. Some made there way here.
Back in the early 80’s I went to Germany and had a chance to talk to relatives who fought in the Nazi army.
They said they started the war on emotions and ended it in reality. I’m sure that is why the resistance failed.
One of my cousins said the best time he spent during the war was in an American POW camp. He as shocked at the American’s kindness.
They all learned after the war to speak English.
I’ve read that USSR Russia used to have similar arms caches in the USA for guerilla warfare if war ever broke out between us.
Wonder if they are still here.