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Sven Hassel was a 1970's favourite writer who detailed the exploits of the 27th Panzer Regiment, a Penal Battalion in the Wermacht of which himself was a part.

However the veracity of these novels does not need a historian to debunk them. At any one point in time the 27th is fighting in Russia, Finland, the Western Front, Eygpt. Infact it seems to constitute the majority of Axis belligerents in WW2.

OTL only highly trained personnel would be given command of the elite Tiger Tank but in Sven Hassel TL a bunch of criminals is given charge of a scarce resource of which Germany only produced 1,400.

Also Sven is possessed of amazing love making skills and his many girl friends picked up on leave experience undying bliss from his Aryan Shamrock.

Anyway the challenge is to collaborate and produce the final novel in the series...
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