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The Viking
The Waffen SS has a reputation of being the German elite fighting force and they have a reputation of being cruel toward civilians and POW's and rightly so, they were cruel. But I don't intend to discuss their cruelty. I want to discuss the military performance. Was the SS better than their army counterparts?
What argue for the Waffen SS to be an elite and what argues for they weren't. We can argue the performance of the Waffen SS at the battle of Charkov proves they were an elite when they recaptured the city. However, the German army performed better or at least equally as the SS at Kursk as what the SS divisions did. When I read about the what the Waffen SS did during the war, I think they were more reckless than a better fighting force than let say the Gross Deutschland division.
What argue for the Waffen SS to be an elite and what argues for they weren't. We can argue the performance of the Waffen SS at the battle of Charkov proves they were an elite when they recaptured the city. However, the German army performed better or at least equally as the SS at Kursk as what the SS divisions did. When I read about the what the Waffen SS did during the war, I think they were more reckless than a better fighting force than let say the Gross Deutschland division.