High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Volkssturm (German pronunciation: , lit. "storm of the people"; "People`s Army" or "National Militia") was a German national militia of the last months of World War II. It was founded on Adolf Hitler`s orders on October 18, 1944 and conscripted males between the ages of 16 to 60 years who were not already serving in some military unit as part of a German Home Guard.