Believe it or not, most German Heer, Waffen SS, Fallschirmjaeger and other misc ground units, featured an excellent rapport between the enlisted men and most junior and senior officers. Most German battalion commmanders led their units from the front, and knew a lot of their troops by sight and name. In reading accounts of the war written by German survivors a common thread runs through all of them. These men were willing to go through extreme measures to get back to their original units, if they were returning to the front from leave or convalescence. This indicates that in spite of politcal indoctrination from Commissars or whatever, most men fight for their friends, officers and units, and not for some political ideal.