 The "Waffen-SS" did not use makeshift barricades erected close to street corners, because these could be raked by artillery fire from guns firing over open sights further along the straight streets.Instead, they put snipers and machine guns on the upper floors and roofs because the Soviet tanks could not elevate their guns that high, and simultaneously they put men armed with "Panzerfaust" anti-tank weapons in cellar windows to ambush tanks as they moved down the streets.These tactics were quickly adopted by the Hitler Youth and the "Volkssturm".