In early autumn 1944, aware that Germany is losing the war, Heinrich Himmler orders SS Obergruppenführer Hans Adolf Prützmann to organize an elite troop of volunteers to operate secretly behind enemy lines. The Wehrwolf units will be uniformed military formations trained in clandestine operations. 

General Inspector of Special Defense Prützmann is ordered to set up headquarters in Berlin. He learned guerrilla tactics used by Soviet partisans while stationed in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and begins to teach this to the Wehrwolf units.