The Imperial Division is a former German SS unit, which is the same as Adolf Hitler's bodyguard division and ranks second in the SS establishment sequence. This division made great contributions to Hitler's establishment of the "new empire" in World War II, and was known as the "flower of the empire".

Imperial elite

Like Hitler's Guards Division, the Imperial Division was established in the first half of 1930s when Hitler founded the Waffen-SS, but its initial scale was much larger than that of the Guards Division's predecessor, the Leibstandarte Division.

1935 At the beginning of the year, Paul Hausel, a former lieutenant general of the National Defence Force and the flag-bearer of the SS, opened the first SS NCO school in the official residence of the Duke of Brunswick, in order to train the military backbone for the SS. On the basis of a large increase in military cadres, the SS began to expand grass-roots armed organizations and set up regular military units.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/936, the three assault brigades of the Waffen-SS in Munich became the first Waffen-SS regiment, which was named "German Corps". In Hamburg, three local assault brigades formed a second regiment, named "Germanic regiment". Two years later, 1938, after Germany annexed Austria, the third regiment was established in Vienna, named "Fuehrer's regiment". These regiments all adopted the organizational structure of the Wehrmacht Combat Regiment, which was then called the SS Special Mobile Force. They formed the predecessor of the Imperial Division.

Shortly after the establishment of the regiment, a former Wehrmacht officer named Felix Steiner and the second-class assault captain of the SS were sent to the German legion to guide the training and construction of the regiment. People soon discovered that he was a real military talent, and his arrival played a vital role in the early construction of the German legion, the Imperial Division and even the entire SS.

Steiner participated in the First World War, witnessed the dull scene of the long-term stalemate in the war on the Western Front with his own eyes, and was deeply disgusted with the scuffle of large corps with large numbers, mixed advantages and disadvantages, and bloated institutions, and became interested in the "elite assault battalion" fighting that emerged on the battlefield at that time. Since then, a brand-new concept of "building the army with elite soldiers" has sprouted in his mind.

During his post-war military career, he expounded his theory of military essence on various occasions and put forward the idea of building elite troops to his superiors. He pointed out that the overall war depends on the successful implementation of defensive operations by the large corps, but in the attack, "absolutely capable combat entities that can carry out rapid operations" must be used, and they can "separate the enemy in the blitzkrieg and then annihilate them", which plays a decisive role in the victory of the offensive war. Therefore, he strongly advocated that the country should concentrate the best talents and equipment to build an elite army. However, his new ideas did not get the attention of pedantic and conservative upper-level officers. His repeated appeals were ignored, but were vilified, so he angrily retired from active service.

After joining the Nazi cause, he promoted his theory with greater energy and finally attracted the attention of Nazi leaders. He was sent to participate in the construction of the SS and got a good opportunity to display his ambition.

After coming to the German legion, he first took a battalion as a pilot and began to carry out drastic reforms.

His first goal is to comprehensively improve the military literacy of this half-assed armed force. He believes that as a soldier, he must "have a strong body, agile skills, superb marching ability and combat skills like an athlete" and become an "excellent sniper, attacker and competitive ability". According to this point of view, he stopped mechanical drilling in the courtyard wall, opened the camp gate, pulled the troops into the wild and beat them up, led the officers and men to fight day and night in the wind and rain, and practiced shooting, fighting, forced marching, class attack and class defense one by one.

His second goal is to improve the relationship between superiors and subordinates within the team. He believes that in this new type of army, officers and men should transcend status differences and establish "comrade-like friendship", which is essential to eliminate fatigue and fear caused by fighting and training. To this end, he often organizes officers and men to compete in military skills, strengthens the mutual communication and emotional connection between officers and men, and also promotes the development of military training.

His third goal is to build a truly excellent army composed of soldiers and officers. According to the theory of elite soldiers, he personally presided over the conscription work and recruited a large number of "excellent" elements with "healthy thoughts and strong physique", making his troops a pure Nazi clique. All the crew members were either members of the Nazi Party or Hitler's "Youth League" and "Youth League". On the issue of selecting officials, he broke the concept of family status and blood relationship and established a set of official selection system that betrayed tradition. It stipulates that all soldiers, regardless of their origin, family status and growth background, will be recognized as reserve officers as long as they complete basic training and pass the examination. Soldiers must serve in the army for two years before entering military schools; After graduation, you need to pass strict assessment training. This practice greatly improved the quality of officers, but also gave great encouragement to soldiers.

His fourth goal is to establish his ideal "combat entity"-commando. According to their own blueprint-select top students; Equipped with high sensitivity and high firing rate assault rifles and various blasting equipment; Wearing a new camouflage training uniform ... he ran around, selected officers and soldiers, called for support, organized experiments again and again, and finally built the first German commando.

1in the summer of 937, Steiner pulled his hand out and gave the boss a debriefing drill. In 20 minutes, the soldiers were fully armed and completed a strong March of nearly 3 kilometers, almost half of the normal record, which surprised the defense generals. Therefore, Steiner and the German delegation gained great reputation. Himmler personally summoned and praised them, and transferred Steiner to participate in the formation of other SS units. After Steiner, another famous SS division "Viking Division" was formed and was promoted to Deputy Commander-in-Chief of SS at the end of the war.

The German regiment and its sister regiment became stronger and stronger, and then rose rapidly on the German military stage.

Fight for the empire

Imperial divisions and troops participated in the foreign conquest war for the first time, which was the Polish War in 1939. At that time, the division had not yet been established, and all the regiments participated in the war in their own names. The German Army joined the Northern Army Group and acted in the formation of the Third Army Group, attacking Mlava and Maodelin, while the German Army Group joined the Southern Army Group and cooperated with the 14 Army Group to advance to London, all of which performed well.

After the war, 10, 10 in June, the SS headquarters ordered the German regiment, the German regiment and the Fuehrer regiment to be built into the first motorized infantry division of the SS, that is, the Imperial Division. Paul Hausel was the first teacher.

1June 1940 to1April 19941April 1994, the imperial division took part in the western front and the Balkans, and fought thousands of miles from Holland and Belgium to France, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. During the invasion of South China, the German army quickly broke through the Yugoslav defense line and entered the capital Belgrade, becoming one of the first troops to enter the city.

194 1 In June, the Imperial Division embarked on a long journey to conquer the Soviet Union, where it wrote its most glorious history and left the most painful record of failure.

At the beginning of the invasion, the Imperial Division was incorporated into the 46th Panzer Corps, belonging to the 2nd Panzer Cluster in guderian. The task of this cluster is to attack along the east-west axis of Susie as the sharp knife and main attack of the central army group, annihilate the Soviet heavy group in this area and go straight to Smolensk and Moscow!

The army of iron and steel rolled eastward and went deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Union step by step, reaching the Dnieper River, the largest river in the western part of the Soviet Union, in mid-July. In July 1 1, ministries and commissions competed to cross the river. During the crossing, the Imperial Division was violently attacked by the Soviet Union, and most of the pontoons were damaged. The division barracks carried out emergency repairs in the fire to ensure that the main force of the division reached the east coast safely. After crossing the river, the troops continued to move forward and left for the Roslav region south of Smolensk around the 20th.

Smolensk is the most important city on the way eastward to Moscow, and the main army of the Soviet Union's Western Front Army deployed around it is firmly shielding the eastward passage. The Second Armored Cluster Army launched the fiercest battle with the Soviets here since the war.

After the German army arrived, the soldiers were divided into multiple paths and quickly detoured to the east of Rosslafer. The Imperial Division was inserted into the eastern Yelinia region with the 46th Armored Army, which cut off the connection between the Soviet army in Rosslafer and the main army in the eastern western line, and the troops of the four Soviet divisions were suddenly put into encirclement. In late July, the western military forces of the Soviet Union constantly tried to attack Yelinia in an attempt to rescue the besieged Soviet troops. Imperial division fought fiercely with them, repelled them one by one, and finally solved the Soviet army in the encirclement with the help of friendly neighboring troops. However, after more than a month of continuous operations, the German ministries were exhausted and lost the ability to continue attacking, so they were forced to suspend their attacks and turn to defense.

However, the Soviets did not want the Germans to get a moment's peace. At the end of August, the western army under the command of General zhukov took advantage of the decline of the German army and suddenly launched a large-scale counterattack. Its first goal is to pierce the Yelinia projection of the Soviet front like a poisonous needle at the forefront of the central army group front.

The battle is going on fiercely. The German Armed Forces 10 Division and motorized infantry division 17 Division stationed in Yelinia were violently attacked, resulting in heavy casualties and emergency defense. At this juncture, the imperial division, which was resting on the second line, immediately interrupted the rest and rushed back to the front line to shoulder the defensive responsibility.

The high command looked back at the Imperial Division, and the special plane dropped leaflets at the front of the position, encouraging the officers and men of the Imperial Division to carry forward the "glorious tradition and defeat the Soviet Union with invincible heroism". At the end of the leaflet, it reads: "The Fuehrer is waiting for your news of victory!"

Soviet troops launched an attack under the cover of heavy artillery. The soldiers shouted "Hula" and rushed to the position of the Imperial Division. They are not afraid of sacrifice and go forward bravely. The Imperial Division has never experienced such a scene since it entered the war. Some young soldiers were trembling with fear. At this moment, the commander of the battalion company stepped forward and led a group of veterans who were not afraid of death to rush to the front, set up machine guns and submachine guns to sweep wildly, and a group of people were knocked down. The other group kept fighting with guns until the barrel was hot. One day on August 30th, the Imperial Division withstood seven powerful shocks from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union broke into the position several times and drove them out with counter-shocks.

3 1, just as they were preparing for a new attack, they suddenly received an urgent telegram from the high command, ordering them to immediately withdraw from their positions and head south to the southern army group. As a result, the Imperial Division stopped fighting in the central battlefield and moved to Ukraine. There, they were fortunate enough to participate in one of the most successful battles of the German army in the Soviet-German battlefield-the Battle of Kiev.

Kiev, the capital of Ukraine and the "granary" of the Soviet Union, is the most important city in the southwest of the Soviet Union. In the early days of the war against the Soviet Union, the Southern Army Group undertook the attack in this direction. By August, the attack of the Central Army Group on Moscow was blocked. Despite the opposition of his generals, Hitler decided to change his strategy, suspend the middle offensive, concentrate on the two wings, strive to make progress on the south road and the north road first, and then return to attack Moscow. It is against this background that the German army was transferred from guderian and launched the battle of Kiev with the Southern Army Group.

At that time, the confrontation between the Soviet and German armies in Kiev was that the German army had divided into two ways, bypassing Kiev and wedging into the northeast and southeast behind it, and Kiev and its east area were still under Soviet control. In this way, an obvious triangular bulge is formed here. The top of this bulge in the west is Kiev, the upper hypotenuse flows from northeast to Kiev, and the lower hypotenuse flows from Kiev to the lower reaches of the Dnieper River in the southeast. The outside of the two rivers is controlled by the Germans, and the inside between the two rivers is stationed by the Soviets. The Soviet army assembled the main army of the southwest army here, with a strength of 500,000-600,000. Hitler was keenly aware that this was an obviously favorable operational situation for the Germans, so he carefully designed an encirclement and suppression plan. He intends to hold a confrontation between the north and the south on the east side of the bulge, lock the bottom of the bulge, put all the troops in the southwest into his pocket, and then slaughter them carefully and catch them all.

The task of sealing the back edge was given to his "iron masters"-guderian 2nd Armored Cluster and Chrysler 1 Armored Cluster. Guderian's task is to break through the Jasna River, advance from north to south, and meet with the northbound 1 cluster in Romne, thus reaching a camp.

The battle started on August 24th, and guderian was divided into two groups, with double flanks, occupying the left (east) all the way, and making a detour outside, which was held by the 3rd Division. The other road is on the right (west), and the inner layer is circuitous. The arrow of this road was played by the imperial division.

On September 4th, after the 3rd Division launched the attack 10, the Imperial Division launched the attack as planned. The Fuehrer Regiment was the first unit to reach the designated position. At 3 o'clock in the morning, it couldn't wait for the division artillery to arrive. Without the cover of artillery fire, it launched an attack on the Ubeid River north of the Jessner River. At first, it hit three times in a row, but it was blocked by the fierce artillery fire of the Soviet Union and failed. Hammel, the captain of the SS, commanded the 2nd Battalion, then launched the fourth attack, and finally succeeded. Haarmeyer and his troops rushed to the river, crossed the river, and entered a Soviet division headquarters on the south bank of the river. All the personnel inside were captured before they knew what had happened.

At dawn on the 6th, the Imperial Division started the battle to cross the Jessner River, and the key point of the attack was to win Ma Xincheng on the north bank of the river. Soviet troops blocked the Fuehrer's regiment with the firepower of two heavy tank platoons. The German commander radioed the Air Force for help. But waiting left and right, the plane still didn't appear. Guderian, the commander, ordered the air force to attack immediately. The fighting started again, and the motorcycle battalions lined up in columns, galloped forward through the barrage and broke into the city in one fell swoop. Just then, the long-awaited dive bomber appeared over the city, and a string of bombs dropped indiscriminately. The city suddenly became a sea of fire, and the motorcycle camp suffered heavy casualties. SS Captain Lentep and SS Captain Frank neglected to take care of the wounded, so they took four soldiers and drove three motorcycles through the burning block to the railway bridge over the Jessner River in the south of the city. On the north side of the bridge, they eliminated the explosives used to blow up the bridge in time, then rushed across the bridge and seized the bridgehead on the south bank. When the Soviet army saw this, it was shocked and mobilized artillery and mortars to bomb together. Frank and others held their ground until night fell and the first batch of backup troops arrived.

The main force of the division crossed the bridge and pushed south. On September 14, the 3rd Division of Armored Group joined forces with 1 Armored Group to pull up the outer encirclement network. On September 16, the Imperial Division captured Priluki, a traffic town on the Uday River, cut off the Soviet retreat passage and completed the inner flank.

Subsequently, the Imperial Division stuck to the protruding east and defeated many Soviet troops who broke through.

In this campaign, the Germans wiped out more than 600,000 Soviet troops and won an unprecedented victory in history.

The performance of the Imperial Division in this battle was widely praised. General guderian once commented: "The discipline, morale and combat skills of the SS on the battlefield are undoubtedly first-class."

After the Battle of Kiev, the Imperial Division returned to the battlefield of Roslavr in the middle and became the 4th Armored Army. On June+10, 5438, he took part in the "Typhoon Campaign" attacking Moscow, heading east and reaching the Volga River 200 kilometers northwest of Moscow. However, due to the tenacious resistance and cold of the Soviet Union, he was forced to stop the attack.

In 65438+February, the Soviet army launched a large-scale counterattack against the Germans who were at the gates of Moscow, and the Imperial Division turned to a tough battle. 1942 65438+ 10, several army groups of the Soviet Kalinin Army, after continuously breaking through the German defense line and recovering the lost land on the north bank of the Volga River, launched an attack on the ninth army position of the South Andes, and the left wing of the German defense line was quickly broken, leaving only Elghez, the right wing, in hand. In the middle of the year, the Soviets concentrated on besieging Elghez, trying to drive the Germans out of the Volga River completely, and outflanked the main force of the South Central Army Group via Elghez.

The Fuehrer's regiment was urgently sent to the front line, and fought fiercely with Soviet troops several times its own at a temperature of MINUS 52 degrees Celsius, repelling attacks again and again. At the beginning of February, when reinforcements arrived, the Germans finally held Grsho and gained a foothold along the Volga River until March 1943. After the battle, General Mo Deer, commander of the 9th Army, personally called the officers and men of the Fuehrer's regiment. He was extremely shocked to find that there were only 36 people left in the original team of 2000 people!

After that, the Imperial Division retreated to the rear to rest, reorganized into the 2nd SS armored division, incorporated into the high command reserve, transferred to France in June, and returned to the eastern front at the end of the year, and formed the SS armored army led by Hausel with Hitler's guards to fight in the southwest battlefield. 1From February to March, 943, he fought bravely in the Battle of Kharkov, making great contributions to retaking Kharkov and curbing the further advance of the Soviet Union.

From the spring of 194 1 to 1943, the Imperial Division spent the best two years in the Soviet-German battlefield. During this period, it moved to the east, west, north and south, adding one record after another to its art books. However, as the war dragged on, the failed demon began to pester it, and it finally slipped into decline mercilessly.

Imperial martyr

1in the spring of 943, although the SS was still shrouded in the aura of victory in the Battle of Kharkov, the number of divisions was still increasing, but in fact the whole army was in danger and in decline.

At that time, the young Germans who poured into the SS were ashamed to associate with them, and the recruitment work became increasingly difficult. At some job fairs, there was such an embarrassing scene: the host made five appeals in a row, but no one signed up and had to threaten that "those who did not sign up were not allowed to go home". The thick and powerful base of the SS, which has been proud for many years, collapsed and the quality of soldiers plummeted. At that time, the loyalty to the Fuehrer until death has been greatly weakened in many people's hearts. Some senior officers refused to shout "Long live Hitler!" The slogan, and replaced by "long live!" Some troops marched in the streets in the traditional uniforms of their political opponents, the stormtroopers, so that Himmler threatened to send "a striptease team" to restrain them. At that time, the strict military discipline and high morale that were exemplary in the whole German army have also disappeared. More and more officers and men are demoralized, demoralized and passive, and reports reflecting the army's lax discipline and frequent troubles fly from all directions to Himmler's desk. In desperation, Himmler personally ordered the army commander: "Send the most brave and capable outstanding officers, arrest all those idlers, tie their hands and feet and throw them into big trucks and send them to hard labor. Whoever resists will be shot! "

As a member of this group, Imperial Division is also in crisis: insufficient supply, incomplete equipment, shrinking troops, lax military discipline, low morale, …… all kinds of disadvantages breed and spread within the team.

After the Battle of Kharkov, the troops continued to station in the southern battlefield. The soldiers crouched in the fortifications and cooked potatoes every day to satisfy their hunger. They look at endless, rich and beautiful, but mysterious places. It seems that there is a looming Ukrainian plain behind every river ditch and every cluster of trees, and their hearts are at a loss.

1943 in the early summer, the southern theater, which had been silent for several months, once again ignited the war. In July, Hitler launched the "barrier" action in an attempt to repeat the scene of Kiev's encirclement and suppression, panic in the Soviet regrouping in the prominent part of Morsk, and reverse the passive situation. The Imperial Division and two other SS divisions formed the 2 nd SS Panzer Corps, which undertook the task of attacking northward on the east side of the bulge, and joined forces with the Germans going south in Kursk to block the bottom edge of the bulge. Before the war, Hitler specially instructed that the most elite corps should be used in the main assault direction, and the sharp knife troops should be armed with the best equipment and personnel. Looking back on the war, he shouted: "Kursk's victory should be the torch of the world!" "

On July 5, German soldiers with 2700 tanks and self-propelled artillery soldiers split into two roads and started the north-south attack. In the south, Dang Wei Panzer Corps and the 48th Panzer Corps simultaneously advanced northward. In the first round of attack, 700 tanks and self-propelled artillery were dispatched. All kinds of medium and heavy tanks broke through the density of 50 ~ 100 vehicles per kilometer and rushed to Soviet positions in droves, with great momentum. This time, however, the battlefield situation is completely different from the Kiev campaign of 194 1. The Soviet army has grasped Hitler's pulse and made full preparations. In front of the Germans, there are eight trenches, traffic trenches, barbed wire, roadblocks, Abatis, anti-tank guns, light and heavy machine gun fire launching positions and underground bunkers, and hundreds of thousands of mines.

So the German attack was very hard, and the road ahead was covered with anti-tank obstacles, mines and hidden bunkers. The Soviets fired unusually dense artillery from all directions, and in many positions, they hit the last person and fired the last shot without flinching. Some tanks were injured, but they were wrapped in smoke and fire and crashed into German tanks. In the sky, Soviet bombers roared from time to time, aiming at German tank columns. The earth trembled violently in the sound of guns, and the smoke from all directions covered the burning sun in the sky, making the sky dark. From 5th to 10, Nanjin regiment lost most of its troops, and only succeeded in advancing 15km to the north, but it was still 10km away from Oboyan, the target of the first-stage attack, and even hundreds of kilometers away from Kursk.

10, Hitler ordered to continue the "barrier operation", and the high command used almost all the reserve mobile units to supplement the frontline troops, especially the SS armored units, with new tanks and personnel, ready to launch a new round of offensive and seize Prokhovka in the southeast of Oboyan.

The Soviet army accurately identified the German attempt, concentrated the main forces of the Fifth Guards and the Fifth Guards Armored Army in this direction, and prepared to launch a powerful counter-assault on the German army.

12 at 8: 30 on July, the Soviet army launched an attack on the German army. Almost at the same time, the Imperial Division, Skull Division and Viking Division also launched an attack on the Soviet Union. The German steel guard consisting of 400 tanks collided head-on with the Soviet steel guard consisting of 800 tanks and launched a dark melee. Tanks on the ground shot at each other and collided with each other. The aerial planes chased each other and exchanged fire fiercely, and the fighting lasted 10 hour. At dusk, the Imperial Division and its friends and neighbors had lost most of their tanks, and they were unable to fight any more, so they had to quit fighting and flee in panic. "The Russians became the masters of the battlefield."

What war historians call "the greatest tank battle in history" and "the really fiercest battle in World War II" ended and the SS was completely defeated. "The last hope of the Germans to get something from the Battle of Kursk was completely shattered."

On July 23, the entire Battle of Kursk ended in a total victory of the Soviet Union.

After this campaign, the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield took a turn for the worse. In pursuit of victory, the Soviet Union dispatched four or five fronts and launched a powerful summer and autumn counterattack in the southwest battlefield. The heroic Soviet soldiers shouted the slogan of "liberating the motherland", pressed furiously to the west and pounced on the German-occupied cities. Halfway through Voroney, the Japanese army directly won Kharkov, and the Germans launched a crazy resistance in a hurry. Imperial Division, Skull Division and Viking Division were incorporated into the 48th Panzer Corps and put into the peripheral defense of Kharkov.

On August 1 1 day, the first 1 armored army of the Soviet Union arrived in Borg Dukhov, northwest of Kharkov, ready to outflank Kharkov from the west, and the Germans were in danger of being copied from the rear. Three SS divisions were immediately transferred to Borg Dukhov to counterattack 1 Army. From 1 1 to 17, the two armies fought fiercely in southern Bo. With indomitable spirit, the Imperial Division forced the Soviet troops to retreat 20 kilometers to the north, but it also suffered heavy losses and was forced to turn to defense. A few days later, the powerful Soviet army attacked again, and the SS division finally got physical support and lost. On the 23rd, the Soviet encirclement situation was close to being formed. The frightened Germans quickly abandoned Kharkov, drilled the encirclement along the last passage and retreated westward. Kharkov, who recorded the brilliant achievements of the SS, was lost from the Germans forever.

The Soviet army took advantage of the situation to advance westward and recovered the triangle east of Kiev, which suffered great defeat shame two years ago.

In September, the Soviet army crossed the Dnieper River and began to liberate the south bank of Hexi and Kiev. The Imperial Division was sent to the Buklin landing site southeast of Kiev in an attempt to stop the 27th and 40th Soviet Army from crossing the river. However, under the heroic attack of the Soviet Red Army, it failed to hold the defense line. On June 6th, 165438+ Kiev returned to Soviet hands.

165438+1On October 8, the Germans assembled a group army and launched a counterattack in an attempt to recapture Kiev. The Imperial Division took part in the battle in the formation of the 48th Army. At this point, the strength of the Imperial Division was greatly weakened, and it was only equivalent to an enhanced regiment. The officers and men struggled hard and won some victories in small battles, but in the end they failed to reverse the whole defeat. Hitler's vow to "recover Kiev" turned into a joke.

12 In late February, the Soviets continued to drive the Germans westward with a new offensive, and the Germans retreated to the Mitov-Fastov line.

Entering 1944, the Germans still failed to stop the Soviet advance step by step and were forced to start retreating from Soviet territory. In April, the Imperial Division retreated to Romania with the Southern Army Group.

Under the rainy sky, officers and men drove tanks, motorcycles, semi-tracked vehicles and trucks to the west in a long column. They were unkempt, glassy-eyed and heartless, and no one said a word except to convey the marching orders. They fought bloody battles for nearly three years, but the Russian land where tens of thousands of companions were buried was left behind forever.

After a short stay in Romania, the Imperial Division was quickly dispatched to the Western Front to cope with the increasingly tense situation there. In May, he was ordered to enter the south of France, stick to the southern defense line, and participate in clearing the local underground resistance movement.

In June, a junior officer of the Imperial Division disappeared in the Xugelan town area of Olado. They suspected that it had fallen into the hands of guerrillas, so they sent a company to surround the town and searched and asked repeatedly, but failed to find the missing person. They were so vicious that they drove all the men, women and children in the town to an open space, brutally killed them all with machine guns, automatic rifles, grenades, flame throwers and bayonets, and set fire to the whole town, creating a terrible massacre.

In 65438+February, the Imperial Division was transferred to the Ardennes area to join the guards in the Ardennes counterattack, but failed to make a difference. 1February, 945, he was transferred back to the eastern front to participate in the Hungarian counterattack campaign, making great contributions to saving the empire.

After the counter-offensive campaign began, Hagen, the first-class commando captain and SS lieutenant colonel, was ordered to lead a tank commando to attack in front of the team. This tenacious and aggressive Nazi loyalist won the medal of 12, and drove his men through the swamp that almost submerged half the tank and rushed forward desperately. On the way, the tank ran out of gas. He pulled out his pistol, forced another army to give him oil, and then moved on. In desperation, he broke away from the main force and went deep alone until he was 30 kilometers away from the Danube. It was inserted so deeply that even his boss was afraid. However, this ridiculous offensive against 3,000 Soviet tanks with only seven or eight hundred tanks was almost hopeless from the beginning, so it was quickly defeated. Hagen's loyalty and courage failed to save the Fuehrer and his empire.

After the battle, the Imperial Division was scolded by Hitler, and was ordered to take off his armband and cancel his serial number. Hagen jumped up in anger and swore, and threatened to stuff all his medals into the urinal.

1in April, 945, the Imperial Division was wiped out by the Soviets in eastern Germany. This "imperial flower", which was soaked in the blood of itself and others and was a smash hit, finally withered and disappeared on the land of Germany.