Chapter 111: Honor and Reality

The special brigade commander looked at him carefully and understood that he must have eaten too much of the "miracle drug" and had a "little" adverse reaction.

"Very well, you are familiar with your work, and now we know that a tank crew of the Russians is operating with impunity. I received an order from General Lindemann to wipe them out in the near future. In view of the major military action to be taken, I have assigned you to lead it personally. "Frans. Heinz ordered.

"I've heard of that 'Witch Car Team', but why did you have to send me? As you are aware, I have other heavy tasks on my shoulders. ”

"I am sure that only you can lead this military operation brilliantly."

"Brigadier, trust and grateful, I will not disappoint your expectations, but I need a team."

"You'll get a team, a few, but they're all competent professionals, and you'll be able to get in touch with the 'Brandenburg Regiment' and ask for their help, as well as make extensive use of our infiltrators in the city."

"I completely agree with what you say, but time is limited."

"Yes, Albright, we are short on time, and this military operation needs to be carefully prepared and completed within a month."

"Brigadier, I can't finish it anyway within this deadline. This is a major operation that requires a lot of careful preparation. “

"You know very well, Flag Commander, what kind of threat we face if we delay. That's it, we've had enough of the nerve-wracking stuff. So, don't waste your time handing over your urgent business to Stormtrooper Captain Maudlin, and put the rest on hold and start making a battle plan. Once the plan is ready, report back to me. "Frans? Heinz said.

"Yes, Brigadier." Stein replied. He then walked out of the office and returned to his room.

Recently, he has noticed that he is inexplicably tired all the time, and he has difficulty concentrating.

As an SS "super soldier", from the very beginning of the war on the Eastern Front, he and many other SS officers and soldiers began to take a miracle drug known as "S-OBM". Stimulated by this drug, SS officers and soldiers developed a strong desire to win and became extremely brave. Stein had inquired privately about the drug through his authority, only to know that it belonged to an amphetamine drug, and that the company in Berlin called TEMMEL was responsible for producing it. Although the drug was in the stage of experimentation and continuous improvement, between April '39 and February '42, Timir delivered a total of 10 million tablets of the drug to the SS.

Stein felt that those who developed it had clearly underestimated the side effects of the "miracle drug." This drug is clearly addictive. If you don't take medicine, the soldiers will soon become waste.

He had tried not to take the "S-OBM", but he couldn't do it at all, and if he stopped taking the drug, he found that he couldn't even pick up a pistol.

And after eating it and becoming a "super soldier", he was even able to lift a tank.

But the "super soldiers" are obviously not invincible, and according to his friends in other units, five "super soldiers" have already been killed by the Russians.

Stein believed that the Russians would not have had this drug, and if the five super-soldiers had been killed in combat, how strong would the Russians have been.

He had heard of the Russian tank crew, which had fought two more battles after the killing of Major General Walter, both of which dealt a great blow to the Germans, each of which destroyed more than 20 German tanks and had managed to retreat safely despite their own tanks, making him wonder if the crew was also made up of Russian super soldiers.

But he heard that although they were privately referred to by the Wehrmacht soldiers as the "Witch Crew", the crew was actually made up of four young women and a young man.

Now they had made themselves so important that a German lieutenant general ordered the men of the SS Special Brigade and the 800th Regiment of "Brandenburg" to destroy them.

Although they were both conducting special operations, Stein believed that the special brigade and the "Brandenburg Regiment" were completely different.

German officers have always had a heartfelt contempt and hatred for irregular troops, because they attach importance to strength and honor, and despise special operations that they see as "indiscriminate," so it is a miracle that special forces can be produced in the German army.

In fact, the German officers regarded the military profession as incomparably mysterious and noble, and unanimously regarded the special war not only as a desecration of the military profession, but also as an insult to their personal honor and even the honor of the country: secretly wearing the enemy's military uniform was a kind of desecration of their own military uniform. The consequence of this attitude was that the German army did not produce the talents to be adept at conducting unconventional warfare.

But there are exceptions to everything, and it was during the last world war that Letovobek, the commander of a colonial detachment in German East Africa, successfully used guerrilla tactics to trap a large number of British troops that could have been used in European theaters. This experience had a profound effect on one of his subordinates, a junior officer named Shipper, who created what is now the "800th Regiment of Brandenburg".

Not only did Shipper learn from his superiors, but he also had a special yearning for the heroic deeds of war, and he drew on the successful examples of irregular warfare in other countries, and he was convinced of the tremendous effect that irregular warfare could have. 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 detachments could go deep behind enemy lines and occupy bridges, roads, river mouths, 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 Shipper's suggestion embarrassed the Wehrmacht High Command on honor. But because of the change in the situation, this force was still established.

One of the prerequisites for joining the Brandenburg regiment was to be fluent in at least one foreign language, and the fact that the recruited personnel could 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 member of the Brandenburg regiment that is not familiar. The Brandenburg Regiment recruited personnel who belonged to the German nationality, who lived outside the Reich, and Germans who lived in Eastern Europe who 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 Oriental languages such as Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Afghan Pashto.