Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: The Volkssturm ("people's storm") was a German national militia established during the last months of World War II. It was not set up by the "Wehrmacht Heer", the ground component of the combined German Wehrmacht armed forces, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler and its official existence was not announced until October 18, 1944. It was staffed by conscripting males between the ages of 16 and 60 years who were not already serving in some military unit as part of a German Home Guard. The "Volkssturm" comprised one of the final components of the Total War promulgated by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, part of a Nazi endeavor to overcome their enemies' military strength through force of will., Operation "Bagration" (Operatsiya "Bagration") was the codename for the Soviet 1944 Belorussian Strategic Offensive Operation (Belorusskaya nastupatelnaya Operatsiya "Bagration") during World War II, which cleared German forces from eastern Poland between 22 June and 19 August 1944.
The operation was named after 18th19th century Georgian Prince Pyotr Bagration, general of the Imperial Russian Army who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Borodino., Volksgrenadier was the name given to a type of German Army division formed in the Autumn of 1944 after the double loss of Army Group Center to the Soviets in Operation Bagration and the Fifth Panzer Army to the Allies in Normandy. The name itself was intended to build morale, appealing at once to nationalism ("Volk") and Germany's older military traditions ("Grenadier"). Germany formed 78 VGDs during the war. "Volksgrenadiers" and "Volksgrenadier" divisions should not be confused with the "Volkssturm", which is an entirely different entity., The 340th Volksgrenadier Division was a volksgrenadier division of the Heer ( German Army ) during the Second World War , active from 1944 to 1945 . The division was formed in September 1944 , replacing the destroyed 340th Infantry Division , by redesignating the 572 . Volksgrenadier - Division , under the command of Theodor Tolsdorff . It contained the 694th , 695th and 696th Grenadier Regiments , and the 340th Artillery Regiment . The division fought in the Battle of the Bulge , as part of I SS Panzer Corps , and then retreated into Germany as part of XIII SS Corps before finally being destroyed in the Ruhr pocket in April 1945 ., Subject: 340th volksgrenadier division , Relation: part_of, Options: (A) 19th century (B) army (C) august (D) center (E) division (F) existence (G) german (H) military (I) name (J) october (K) war (L) wehrmacht
Output (English): wehrmacht