Assignment Gestapo

Their more unorthodox weapons were lengths of steel wire and knives with double-edged blades, and some of their most prized possessions were gold teeth snatched from corpses. The Disciplinary Regiment, a tank company in Hitler’s army—without a tank to its name—was fighting a brutal war against the Russians. A bunch of hardened killers in filthy rags, stinking to high heaven, this company was worth an entire regiment of freshly laundered troops from Breslau. Guerrilla warfare on the Eastern Front was for them a prelude to the bloody massacre of Russian troops who had attacked the German reserves and occupied their headquarters. Then the Disciplinary Regiment was sent to Hamburg, where their next assignment was guard duty for the bestial Gestapo …