Hitler's "skeleton" division was the most notorious and paid the most attention to people. There is also a great deal of history about the establishment of this armored force. In March 1933, Germany resumed conscription, and Hitler began ordering his subordinates to form a fully militarized SS organization, which was the killer of the Soviets and Jews. After the Polish campaign, Röhm became a nail that Hitler had to pull out. On this secret mission was carried out by the SS, and Röhm and more than six hundred of his loyal SA top brass were forced to trenches one day and secretly executed one by one.
The division's core members were originally responsible for guarding concentration camps and prisons, and their general task was to torture captured members of anti-Nazi groups and to carry out genocide against Jews. The first commander of the division was very well commanded, often admonishing his subordinates that only by treating the enemy cruelly would they not fail to live up to the badges they wore. Therefore, the division's combat effectiveness was superior to that of ordinary Nazi troops, and it was no wonder that the Soviets called them "demons".
In the world's largest tank battle, company commander Ribbentrop Jr. directly drove his armored vehicle to hit the tank, some officers directly took anti-tank grenades to bomb tanks, and his lieutenants also charged forward with machine guns, and the battle was extremely tragic. The division's longest and most vicious battle, the Battle of Demyansk, lasted eight months, when the entire division lost half of its men, and finally let the encircled troops hold out longer. Other SS units, in conjunction with the Army, forcibly opened an opening from one and a half million Soviet troops and rescued the fortress defenses that were besieged by Soviet troops.
However, most of the crimes against humanity in the SS were committed by the division, so this team should be strongly condemned. They were accustomed to killing in concentration camps, so they were never soft on the battlefield, and when they were captured, they were immediately executed as soon as they were considered a burden or act rashly. Of course, their final fate is also tragic. As the Allies continued to advance, the division surrendered to the Americans in May 1945, and the Soviets took them in as prisoners of war.
The last division commander was also handed over to the Soviet Union after World War II, and he was executed by the Soviets for twenty-five years of hard labor. In order to regain his freedom, as staged in the movie, he escapes from prison, secretly bribes the jailer, buys a grenade, and prepares to blow up the wall at night and run out, but without success. In the end, the Soviets considered the man "unforgivable" and ordered him to be hanged in the third year after the war. For the execution of other members, there is a reference standard, if a soldier has tortured prisoners of war in wartime, or has abused the people, if the circumstances are serious, they will be hanged or imprisoned.