As we all know, World War II was a very cruel war, and the Soviet-German war was extremely tragic, and it can be felt that the number of people killed on both sides at that time can be felt that 3950344 people were killed in Nazi Germany and 5097552 people were killed in the Soviet Union. It can be said that several large-scale battles on the Soviet-German battlefield can definitely be called the "meat grinder" level, such as the Battle of Kursk, the Defense of Leningrad, the Defense of Moscow and the Battle of Stalingrad, in the face of the German attack, the Soviet Army relied on a bloody and tenacious resistance, and it was this bloodiness that made the German army pay a painful price.
The Soviets hated the Germans understandably, which was one of the reasons why the Soviets retaliated furiously against the Germans in the later stages of the war, among them, there were two units of the German army that should be regarded as the soviet army's greatest hatred, and it was also the most ruthless retaliation of the Soviet army, one was the German Third Panzer Division, and the other was the German 197th Infantry Division, and their end was the execution of all the members and the pursuit of all the members. What did these two German armies do to make the Soviets completely reject their surrender, that is, to make them die?
If the German Third Panzer Division may not be familiar to some people, but if they are the "Skeleton Division", many people may understand that their predecessor is the infamous Skeleton Corps, which is responsible for the management of Nazi concentration camps, and the crime is heinous, with such a foundation, how good can this army be? It can be said that many of the crimes against humanity committed by the SS were carried out by this division. The Skeleton Division, which was active in the eastern front, was considered the "firefighting unit" of the German army and one of the most feared German troops in the Soviet army, which was also the shadow left on the Soviet army by the siege of Demyansk that year.
In the siege of Demyansk, in the face of the huge encirclement of the Soviet army, the German army still wanted to counterattack, and the skeleton division was a rather bright existence, because they did not sit still even if the bullets ran out, even if the hand-to-hand combat had to try to take away one more Soviet soldier, and finally although the skeleton division was reduced by half, it still successfully broke through, and became the backbone of Hitler's eyes, and became famous in world war I. Later, the Soviet army broke through Berlin, and this unit knew that it would fall into the hands of the Soviet army, so it ran to the Western Front battlefield in advance to surrender to the American army, but the Soviet Union strongly demanded that this force must be handed over to them, and also opened a special court for them, directly sentenced all of them to death, and none of them could run.
The 332nd Regiment of the German 197th Division, this unit did not make the Soviet army suffer any heavy losses, but only because this regiment brutally killed the Heroine Zoya of the Soviet Patriotic State. In 1941, at the age of 18, Zoya joined the Soviet partisans, and was unfortunately captured while on a mission, and during the subsequent interrogation, Zoya suffered a cruel punishment from the Germans, but the torture did not make Zoya loose, and finally the impatient Germans hanged her and insulted her body after death. After learning of this, Stalin issued a special order: do not accept the surrender of this German army, as long as it is caught, immediately shoot! In 1944, the German 197th Division was completely annihilated in the Battle of Belorussia.