The Volkssturm (People's Storm) was the paramilitary force of the Deutsches Reich (German Reich) which was founded on the 18th October 1944 and fought primarily during the closing months of the war. Many people who fought with the Volkssturm were teenagers, any adult males who wasn't serving with any German military unit, and the elderly. The Volkssturm were armed without whatever they were provided with (e.g. Panzerfaust, Karabiner 98k, and the Volkssturmgewehr). They tried to hold the Allied advances into Germany back, but ultimately on 8th May 1945, they were dissolved after Germany lost the war.