The end of World War II, the Nazi German army who refused to surrender and was executed, the SS Skeleton Division

The end of World War II, the Nazi German army who refused to surrender and was executed, the SS Skeleton Division

The reason why Nazi Germany was able to look down on its enemies in World War II and swept the enemies of the entire Western and Northern Europe in a very short period of time is evident in its combat effectiveness.

If we analyze from the specific military type, although the German air force is powerful, under the leadership of Goering, it has not yet reached the level of defeating the United Kingdom; the ten-year air force and the century-old navy, since the first station, the German Navy, which has been sanctioned and restricted, It is still unable to compare with the main opponent Britain at the beginning of the war, although Marshal Dönitz realized his weakness and developed his own submarine force in a targeted manner.

But in the final analysis, this asymmetrical combat method did not allow the wolves in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean to finally win.

The German Army, described as the number one in the world at that time, should not be too controversial. Of course, the Soviet army's performance in the Great Patriotic War was also extremely strong. Although it won victories from its rival German army at the cost of casualties, the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army was enough to defend the country of more than 10 million square kilometers in Europe and Asia. of.

Today, we are going to discuss the following elites of the German army, the German 3rd Armored Division. Perhaps everyone does not know much about the specific designation. However, when it comes to another name, military enthusiasts will never be unfamiliar - SS Skeleton Division!

"Treat our enemies ruthlessly to live up to our skull badge", this sentence comes from the mouth of Ike, the first commander of this notorious, but extremely powerful force. The SS has always left a brutal and ruthless impression on the world, and skeletons will also bring endless fear to people.

Also as Ike advertised and educated, from the previous Nazi Skeleton Corps to becoming the official division of the German army, the SS Skeleton Division was basically a bad thing during the few years when Nazi Germany aggressively attacked the Soviet Union. The reason is that the main source of these people is the Nazi SS members who were in the concentration camp before, and what they did in the concentration camp was mainly to exterminate the Jews, that is, to carry out the work of industrial assembly line killing.

From the launch of the Barbarossa Operational Plan on June 22, 1941, the SS Skeleton Division was adjusted to France for rest in 1942 due to casualties, and returned to the Eastern Front in 1943. All famous battles except Moscow Outside of the battle, there are basically the figures of this group of powerful skeleton masters.

Even in 1944, when the German army was retreating, when the Soviet army counterattacked into Poland, the SS Skeleton Division, together with the Viking Division and another armored division, repelled the attack of the two Soviet armies in the battle to guard Warsaw.

Then the SS Skeleton Division was sent to Budapest, the capital of Hungary, because of its strong combat capability, to rescue a regular army of 45,000 German soldiers who were besieged there.

In the end, faced with the ferocious combat effectiveness of the Soviet counter-offensive and the encirclement and suppression of the U.S. military on the western front, the SS Skeleton Division could only choose to surrender. However, in the selection of objects, the SS Skeleton Division deliberately found the US military, not the Soviet army. Because they themselves know that the lives they slaughtered, the towns and villages destroyed by them, including the slaughter of the female combat heroes of the Soviet Union, etc., even if the SS Skeleton Division pays all their lives in the Soviet Union, cannot be recovered. Soviet losses.

The U.S. military accepted the surrender of the Skeleton Division, but for many reasons, the prisoners of war were finally handed over to the Soviets. The fate that followed was as feared by the soldiers of the Skeleton Division. In the Soviet prisoner of war camp, they still paid the price of blood for the viciousness they had done before.

The prisoners of the entire division were killed by the Soviet Union by refusing to surrender!