"Fight for freedom!" Soldiers wearing M35 steel helmets grabbed Mauser 98K rifles with both hands, held them up in front of their faces like swords, and shouted slogans loudly.

All the soldiers wore the standard SS uniform, but the insignia on the collar was somewhat different.

These soldiers used the backward German Y-type tactical harness, which was not as advanced and easy to use as the H-type tactical harness.

Moreover, these soldiers did not have standard gas mask barrels, which seemed to be much less than the regular Waffen-SS.

Standing in front of these soldiers were SS generals and various colonels and lieutenant colonels, who were reviewing their troops with their hands behind their backs.

"Very good, they look very combative, and I hope they can be as energetic on the battlefield as they are today." The SS major general, led by the leader, folded his hands behind his back and praised the man in the suit next to him.

"Our soldiers are carefully selected and they are willing to fight for the Third Reich! Defeat the Soviet Red Army! The man in the suit said to the SS major general with a smug expression on his face.

Farther away, soldiers in the uniforms of the German SS Panzers, standing in front of their tanks, looked full of spirits with their heads held high.

Behind them were refurbished 150 T-26 tanks, all of which were made of steel plates welded into a square shape around the turret perimeter to increase bulletproof and make them easier for friendly units to identify.

All tanks are painted with the Iron Cross in black and white, and the gray livery is completely distinguishable from the grass green livery of the Soviet Union.

Unlike most Waffen-SS tanks, regular SS armoured vehicles were painted in camouflage, and there were very few vehicles painted in gray.

The tanks in front of me are all painted in gray, using the same German tank livery as it was during the invasion of France.

"The Führer gave this Panzer Division the number of the SS, you are a regular army, not a servant army, not a second-rate unit, you are the main force of the SS in the true sense of the word!" The major general put his hands behind his back, and the praise language of no money came as soon as he opened his mouth.

In fact, he did not believe everything he said, because he knew that there were no SS units, and they were still fighting with outdated and outdated captured T-26 tanks.

All captured T-26 tanks were distributed to the Servant Army, which was handed over to the Italian Expeditionary Force, the Romanian Expeditionary Force, the Hungarian Expeditionary Force, and the Finnish Force.

Some of the rest, in better condition, were left for tank training units, or were given away as weapons to Vichy France.

Of course, a significant portion of the exported weapons, which were used as debt payoffs, were paid to Spain for imports of grain and rare metals.

Only a small number of KV-1 tanks were still in service with the German army, and they were also on secondary combat missions to encircle and suppress the guerrillas and suppress Yugoslavia and other regions.

To tell the truth, Germany simply didn't have any extra steel to waste, so the captured weapons had to be put to good use.

This means that the Navy saves the steel of submarines and uses it to build surface ships such as aircraft carriers, so that the Navy can continue to develop.

At the same time, because there was no threat of aerial bombardment, the manufacturing of countless anti-aircraft guns was canceled and the production of tanks was turned to barely enough.

Fortunately, the blockade of the United States has become useless due to the Pacific War, and many imported materials such as grain can continue to flow into Europe, easing the pressure on Europe's materials.

Otherwise, food alone would have been enough for the managers of the Third Reich.

"The unit of this division is numbered the 15th Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division." As he spoke, the Major General motioned to the colonel on the other side of him and unfurled the flag in the hands of the standard-bearer.

"At the same time! They are also the 1st Latvian division! With the bold words of the major general, a flag was unfurled, on which the emblems of the 1st Latvian Division, the 15th SS Grenadier Division were waved in the wind.

"Hey! Hitler! "All the soldiers raised their chins and shouted the Führer's name, they were young people who were really willing to support the Führer, to support Germany in such a war.

Yes, in Latvia, and also in Lithuania, there are countless people who believe that Germany is waging a war of liberation, and that the USSR is the odious aggressor.

Now that Germany had begun to moderate its racial policy and ease its oppression of the occupied territories, the locals were more willing to cooperate with Germany and drive out the terrible Russian rulers forever.

"Leave the toughest task to us! We are willing to fight the Soviets to the end! "The man in the suit, is a politician from the Latvian region.

Under his leadership, the 1st and 2nd Latvian Divisions had been successfully formed, but they lacked only a little combat experience.

In another place, an Panzergrenadier Division in Estonia has also been formed, and three divisions are numbered as in history, but their combat effectiveness has increased several times.

First of all, in terms of numbers, these three divisions have more troops than they have historically been, and they are more professionally trained.

Even if there is some less equipment, the weapons are complete and the ammunition is sufficient, and each division has at least 100 T-26 tanks, and the combat effectiveness is only higher than that of the average Soviet armored division.

Each of the three divisions also had three German teaching companies, and all the combat units above the company were officers selected by the German SS.

If you count the fact that each division has a company of Stalker tank destroyers as an anti-tank company, the establishment of these units is actually very strong.

"You will go to war tomorrow to fight the most vicious Soviets...... May God bless you and victory will be with you! The SS Major General held his head high, and after uttering some words of encouragement, turned and walked off the podium.

The flags of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division fluttered in the sky, and the soldiers standing in the square maintained a standing posture, and in front of the line, a row of MG-42 machine guns was neatly placed, looking imposing.

On 23 May, with the help of the German SS, conscription was in full swing in the occupied territories. The 15th SS Panzergrenadier Division was formed on this day, along with the 19th and 20th divisions.

Three divisions of more than 60,000 troops marched from the three Mediterranean countries in the direction of Leningrad.

On the same day, the news that the artillery of the German Army Group Center had begun shelling Moscow was published in the newspapers, on the front pages of the Berlin Zeitung and the Reichszriege, and the news caused a sensation all over the world.