re: #323 Dark_Falcon

One thing to be clear was that the SS personnel in question used the title of pioneeren as a cover. “Pioneer” as used by the Germany army during both World Wars meant ‘combat engineer’. Such units were part of the normal order of battle and did not behave especially badly.

What you may be thinking of are the Brandenburgers, who were German special forces troops.

You might want to reconsider that “did not behave especially badly”. No units of the Wehrmacht were immune from behaving especially badly.