World War II was initiated by the evil Axis power of Germany and Italy, but right and wrong aside, Italy was overwhelmed, and the Germans were able to compete with almost the whole of Europe by their own national strength, and even won a very big victory at one time, which had a lot to do with the very good military quality of the German army and the excellent battlefield execution.
As one of the several aces that Nazi Germany relied on most, the Skeleton Division was a strong weapon for the Germans to attack the city and a bridgehead for the defensive front.
The predecessor of the SS Skeleton Division was the Skeleton Corps, a generic term for the SS that specialized in managing Nazi concentration camps during World War II. These people are cold and cruel, infinitely loyal to the Fuehrer Hitler, and have done many things that hurt nature and reason.
As the fighting around Germany continued to expand, the 3rd SS Skeleton Panzer Division was formed, based on some officers and soldiers of the SS units, whose commander, Theodor Ike, once said to his men: "Treat our enemies with ruthlessness and ruthlessness, in order to live up to our skeleton badges".
The right collar badge of the skeleton unit is either the traditional SS, or a skeleton, and the armband was eventually changed to the skeleton emblem, and their uniform has two more skull badges than other SS units. This skeleton division fought in almost all the battles against the Soviet Soviet East.
Except for 41 years of adjusting the replenishment of troops in the rear because the losses were too serious, the rest of the time they fought on the front line, giving the Soviets heavy war damage.
The skeleton division is most famous for the 1942 Siege of Demjansk, when Germany failed to attack Moscow, switched from offensive to defensive, and gradually withdrew from the Soviet Union, where the Soviets gathered three thousand tanks and more than two thousand combat aircraft to cooperate with hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army to attack, targeting three German armies above Leningrad.
By this time the Red Army had formed a huge encirclement, trapping the German Skeleton Division and two army groups in Demjansk. Hitler saw that the most elite troops were surrounded, and hurriedly ordered the Germans to rescue them.
Despite being surrounded by a large army, the Skeleton Division remained scrappy, and in the spring the Soviets launched an offensive, and the encircled Germans were scrappy and repelled a tidal wave of Soviet attacks. The Germans successfully waited for reinforcements to arrive and achieved the goal of retreating.
The battle was fought in the dark, and the 120,000 Germans, in three months, resisted the attack of 230,000 Soviet troops, and withdrew at the cost of 50,000 men and 400 artillery pieces except Demyansk. In this battle, the Soviet army lost 80,000 men, and 150,000 people were wounded to varying degrees.
After this battle, the strength of the German SS shocked the whole world, the Soviet Union also deeply hated and feared it, and the skeleton division also knew that it had deeply angered the Soviet Union, so after Germany saw that it was about to be defeated by the Allies, this skeleton division moved as far west as possible, hoping to avoid the fate of being punished by the Soviet Union by surrendering to the Americans.
However, many acts of injustice will kill themselves, and after the strong demands of the Soviet Union, the Americans still handed over this group of prisoners of war to the Soviet Union, and basically the skeleton division was executed by the Soviet military tribunal for crimes against humanity and genocide.