they were pretty desperate in the last days, true

another hypothesis could be that the krauts just used them to commit war crimes, then whacked them afterwards.

but most likely the lot of them were sent head first into the red army's mg nests.

No. They were used as soldiers, not cannon fodder. No different than national units or the army

The SS that managed the concentration camps was separate from the fighting units

And easily confused by being called SS-VT and SS-TV

Anything you see with SS-TV is Holocaust stuff

SS-VT were later renamed Waffen-SS and were fighting men

SS-TV were distinguished by the death's head on their collar

The W-SS 3rd Panzer Division was made up of former TV, and did a lot of horrible things. The 13th, 21st, and 23rd Mountain Divisions were made up of eastern Euro Muslims who committed the vast majority of war crimes in eastern Europe outside of the camps

that's pretty interesting stuff, however, to study that here as a historian pretty much means a career suicide if you fail to comply with the current dogmas.

Same in America

Those Muslims units were the only religious troops. They didn't have chaplains in other SS units

Studying the WW2 and post war here, goes pretty much like this: Krauts - good, jewshooting never happened(Lietukis garage pogrom), russia evil. no deviations allowed.

Wow

that's why as a history major, I'm taking medieval studies more or less

Interesting, it's the exact opposite here

Then you will probably like this book

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Edelweiss-Conscience-Soldier-Waffen-SS/dp/0966638980

It's legit, I've read it

I'll have to find a PDF of it. Not many books about the German side, most WW2 stuff here is on how average soviet soldier raped babies and shit

the one that's translated at least.

I wouldn't say average, but it did happen

Having read what few firsthand accounts exist from the Red Army

Good people don't survive long

Communist armies are set up with a unique command structure where an officer second in command is appointed by the party office at each level. The political commissar, responsible for discipline, administrative tasks, and ideology. He can also override the commander in many cases

the commisars were utter morons

Those are the ones in the famous photos that would shoot you in the back for retreating

Yes, because they were chosen based on politics, not leadership ability

sometimes it would be the other way around.

sometimes the trooper would whack the politruk

Not often enough it would seem

true.

one veteran told a story on how his squad killed their commisar

basically the idiot was sending his troops directly into kraut MG fire

instead of flanking it.

And with the Red Army not giving a shit about loss of life, the "one rifle, two men" concept, human wave attacks to make the Germans run out of ammo. Over a period of years, your truly good people are gone.

so, the guys shot the retard

All that's left in the end are your savages willing to do horrible things to survive at the expense of their comrades (no pun intended)

when the NKVD asked why they did it, because they di eventually found out, the guy just said that he was an idiot.

And that's what invaded Berlin