"We all had the determination to die, we quietly touched the Soviet position, and then we exchanged fire, and after we ran out of bullets, we hugged the Soviets, and I would bite him with my teeth... The Soviets seemed to be afraid of us, they had never seen us so crazy, and the comrades next to me felt strange to me... - Diary of a second-class acting corporal from an SS "skeleton division"
Hitler's "Skeleton Division", formerly known as the "Skeleton Corps", was originally the SS that managed the Nazi concentration camps, they were extreme Nazis, who persecuted Jews and dealt with prisoners of war in an extremely cruel way, and the SS Third "Skeleton" Panzer Division was formed from some officers and soldiers in these units.
Most of the original members of the Third "Skeleton" Armored Division came from the "Skeleton Unit", which can be traced back to Frederick William I, and the Royal Guard was established in honor of this former emperor and has a special meaning.
Because Frederick William I's funeral flag had a skull motif, the members of the Royal Guard also wore black uniforms with fur hats embroidered with skulls, and the skull motifs in World War I also marked the elite German troops.
With such a historical background, the members of the "Skeleton Division" never consider themselves anti-human, they feel that the slaughter is to protect the country, they fight hand-to-hand without weapons, like a "killing machine", but they think that it is necessary to lose their lives to achieve the "ideal", so they go to the battlefield, and the only word "charge" in their minds is "charge".
Theodor Ike, the commander of the Skeleton Division, also admonished: "Treat our enemies with ruthlessness in order to live up to our skeleton badge." ”
In November 1941, the German army launched the "Typhoon Operation" with the intention of quickly capturing Moscow, but it was winter, the German offensive was forced to stop, and then the Soviet Union took advantage of this opportunity to launch a major counterattack against the German army, the Soviet Union had more than 230,000 troops, while the German army was only nearly 120,000 people, the German army failed to attack Moscow, but was surrounded by the Soviet army.
The Soviet and German armies did not slacken their efforts, bombarding each other with artillery, and the Demyansk Theater instantly became a Shura field, which was simply a "hell on earth", and in February of the following year, Hitler declared the Demyansk Theater of Operations a fortress, and he intended to use this encirclement war as an experimental ground for new tactics.
The "Skeleton Division" became the vanguard of the German breakthrough, they rushed to the front, frantically using the machine gun in their hands to strafe, using bayonets when the bullets were finished, punching and kicking without bayonets, tearing each other apart with their teeth, they were like demons from hell, completely unlike individuals.
In the end, the German army broke through successfully, since then the "skeleton division" has shocked the world, the Soviet army has changed its color, after the surrender of Germany in 1945, the "skeleton division" surrendered to the US army, but the Soviet army insisted that they try the "skeleton division", and the US army handed over the "skeleton division" as a prisoner of war to the Soviet army.