In the war, the special forces use their own special skills and stunts to complete the tasks that the regular combat forces cannot accomplish, and in military operations, the special forces can even have a strategic impact, produce great results with a very small scale, and play a role in shifting thousands of pounds. The history of the special forces dates back to the time of the Trojan Horse, and thousands of soldiers could not have broken through the city defenses without the two dozen soldiers in the Trojan Horse. Today, special forces have become an indispensable branch of almost all teams in the world, creating military achievements one after another.

Let us not forget that in history there was such a unit that played a crucial role in the development of special forces, and it was the prototype of modern special forces - the Brandenburg unit of the Third Reich.

Formation of the Brandenburg Army

Before the outbreak of the Second World War, at the end of 1938, at the request of the High Command of the German Armed Forces, the Second Division of the German Espionage Service began to recruit a special temporary detachment, the members of which were required to join voluntarily, and the recruitment of the personnel of this detachment was carried out in absolute secrecy, and their early activities remain a mystery to this day. This detachment was later known as the Brandenburg Army.

The Brandenburg unit has been formed, several volunteer squads that can speak Polish, they have merged together to form a battle group called Ebbinghaus, the size is equivalent to the formation of a battalion, which also comes from Hitler's third imperialism is too dependent on combat effectiveness, and the low combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers is not against the Führer's führer, in order to exert strong combat effectiveness, what small divisions when carrying out decapitation assassination operations, so this unit was born with the support of Hitler in Germany, and special forces are a kind of career for soldiers, Professionalism, he made a great contribution to the motherland, enjoyed the highest sense of honor, he only obeyed the orders of the Führer, and was not ordered by the transfer of the generals of other large corps, the emergency division dealt a fatal blow to the enemy, and completed any tasks that other troops could not complete and could not do, and the special forces were also called special detachments。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。

Lieutenant William Walther During World War I, he was the commander of a colonial detachment in German East Africa. His small forces were clearly outnumbered compared to the number of the Entente, and in this case, William. Walser successfully used guerrilla tactics to trap a large number of British troops that could have been used in the European theater. This experience had a profound effect on one of his junior officers, Theodore. Feng. Captain Shipper - It was he who created what would become the Brandenburg Army. After World War I, he was assigned to the Second Division of the German Espionage Service, a military intelligence branch specializing in covert military operations.

A few days before the invasion of Finland, these men in groups of two or three, disguised as coal miners and other workers, began to invade Poland and infiltrate the mines, factories and power plants of Silesia, the center of Poland's heavy industry. Other men under Shipper's leadership crossed the border on the night of August 31 and were stationed at the bridge along the Vistula River, the main passage through the center of Poland. By the time of the large-scale German invasion of Finland in the early morning of 1 September, the Ebbinghaus battle group had taken control of the tactically important bridge over the Vistula River and had captured some intact industrial facilities in Silesia. The Ebbinghouse battle group paved the way for the rapid march of mechanized troops and contributed to the victory of the campaign.

Not only did Doyle learn from his superiors, but he also had a special yearning for the heroic deeds of war, drawing on the successful examples of irregular warfare in other countries, and believing in the tremendous impact that irregular warfare can make. His idea was to form a small detachment of a small number of good men to clear the way for the regular troops. Before launching an offensive or even before a formal declaration of war, these squads could go deep behind enemy lines and occupy bridges, road crossings, and major communications facilities; They can spread disinformation, blow up supply warehouses, attack enemy headquarters, and, in general, cause chaos with a small number of people.

The imaginative Doyle suggested that such an institution should be subordinate to the Second Secret Service. This made the Wehrmacht High Command feel an honorary embarrassment. However, German military thought was rapidly evolving, and this idea of Shipper was not far from a creative new concept of the time, which was the blitzkrieg. At its core, Blitzkrieg relies on lightning speed and a high degree of agility to deal with the enemy's numerical superiority, and one tactic is consistent with Pushel's tactical thinking.

The official German account of the blitzkrieg invasion of Poland makes no mention of the special forces attached to the German spy service. In fact, the proposal to award them the Iron Cross was also rejected, mainly because there was no war between Germany and Finland at the time of the special forces' operation. However, although Doyle's troops were not publicly recognized, their role was well known in the High Command, and the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau, Wilhelm Franz Canaris, decided to make the unit officially join the German Intelligence Service. On October 15, 1939, the first organization of this special forces was established, called the 800th Squadron of Special Mission Training and Construction. Its headquarters were in the old city of Brandenburg in Prussia, from which this organization got its name - the Brandenburg Army. Although under the control of the German spy service and not under the normal system, the Brandenburg troops were not professional spies and saboteurs, but uniformed members of the armed forces, recruited for their specialized specialties and trained for special missions. Their tasks are determined by the High Command, and they are sent to specific units to perform special tasks.

Because of World War II, the Blitzkrieg, the Brandenburg Army Special Forces was born

Elite special forces

One of the prerequisites for joining the Brandenburg army was to be fluent in at least one foreign language, and the requirement that recruits be able to speak many foreign languages illustrated the ambitions of the Third Reich. It can be said that in all the countries of Europe, there is no Brandenburg player who is not familiar with it. The Brandenburg army recruited personnel who belonged to the German nationality and lived outside the Reich, and Germans living in Eastern Europe could speak Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, Ruthenian, and the dialects specific to those regions. Germans living on the Baltic coast speak Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Russian. The other Brandenburgers came from such families, having colonized German territories in South America and Africa, and were fluent in the local dialect in addition to English, Spanish and Portuguese. Some of the Brandenburg team members speak as many as six languages, and a few even speak lesser-known languages such as Tibetan and Afghan Pashto.

In addition to their linguistic skills, the Brandenburg troops carried a large number of limited-term passports, ration books, and identity cards, which could be used by the intelligence services to create fake documents. And because they are so familiar with the local customs and habits that it is difficult to distinguish them from the local people, they can easily blend in with the enemy population. In the words of a German spy agent, every Brandenburg member who entered Russia knew how to "spit like a Russian."

In a large suburban clearing outside Brandenburg, future special forces members are being trained in the skills of covert operations and self-survival: how to walk in the forest without making a sound, how to survive in the region, how to orient themselves by the stars, how to survive in a harsh climate. They learn how to steer a canoe, how to use a parachute and a sleigh to navigate the countryside, and how to make food from the simplest commodities such as potash, flour and sugar. They were proficient in the use of small arms, and equally skilled in the use of knives and Spanish winches to kill silently. With the continuous progress of the training course, many players quit halfway, and many people were eliminated and expelled. Those who remain see themselves as excellent elements, who can compete with the elite of any squad of soldiers in the world, and surpass them.

The team members also need to learn assassination skills, the use of various weapons, and the driving of various vehicles, which will be especially effective for the team members to receive special training in aircraft driving, car driving, motorcycle driving, artillery, tanks, communications, telegraphing, and passwords。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。 It's hard, it's hard work. Those who stayed behind will become the elite of the empire。。。。。。。。。。

Blitz in Western Europe

On April 6, 1940, a Danish-speaking Brandenburg platoon in a Danish uniform captured a bridge across the Little Belt Strait, clearing the way for German troops to invade Norway. A month later, a Brandenburg detachment attached to the Sixth Army paved the way for the army's attack on Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, which marked the beginning of the campaign on the Western Front.

At 2 a.m. on 10 May, Lieutenant Wilhelm Walther and eight other members of the Brandenburg team, disguised as three Dutch policemen, escorted six disarmed German servicemen across the border into the then neutral Netherlands and walked three miles to the town of Hennap. There was the object they were trying to occupy: a railway bridge across the Maas River, a strategic location on the western route to the Netherlands. The Dutch, anticipating a possible attack by the Germans, installed ** on the bridge and had a small detachment to guard the bridge, which would detonate ** as soon as they saw a German train coming. However, they did not suspect Walser and his gang when they saw them. Three Brandenburg team members in military police uniforms walked straight to the guardhouse on the east bank of the river and quickly subdued the sentries. At the same time, their "captives" rushed onto the railroad bridge and quickly cut the detonation line. A few minutes later, the first German armoured train rumbled over the bridge, followed by the infantry wagons, which drove unhindered into the Netherlands, thus laying the groundwork for the long march of the Germans from the northern flank into Belgium and France.