Volksgrenadiers: Model for Late War Divisions?

[Raellus]

I know it's really a moot issue but I continue to be curious about the structure of late Twilight War "divisions". I've been doing a little research into the concept and execution of late WWII Volksgrenadier divisions and it seems like they might make a decent model for late Twilight War divisional structure, at least for NATO infantry divisions.

Volksgrenadier divisions were Germany's attempt to address the devastating loss of dozens of divisions resulting from the destruction of Army Group Center during and after the Soviet's summer of '44 Bagration offensive.

Many VGDs were formed around cadres of survivors drawn from destroyed infantry and panzergrenadier divisions and bolstered by "unemployed" Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine personel, services and support personel, soldiers recently discharged from hospital, and those civilians on the outer fringes of the age ranges already mobilized for military service. In the last year of the war in Europe, some VGDs fought particularly well while others performed rather poorly.

They had few heavy weapons, were relatively light in the artillery department, and the Volksgrenadier division's three "grenadier" (i.e.plain ol' infantry) regiments only had two battalions each for an authorized divisional strength of around 10,000 men. (Most VGDs were, however, well equipped with automatic weapons.)

This is still well above the divisional strengths listed for most U.S., NATO, and Soviet/WTO strenghts listed in the various canonical T2K sources (few divisions are above Brigade strength). But the concept seems to have applications in the late Twilight War, at least for NATO infantry divisions.