Hi nice thread,
i read some articles about the german penal compagnies,they had normaly only german soldiers or officers who had light sentences who wanted to get reinstated again later on. They had to do the most difficult jobs like mineclearing and stopping russian panzers with only a grenade. When they survived a couple of battles they were reinstated. But the causulty rate was so high very few got back to there own div.
There is a movie about the penal div in russia.
i dont know the name if somebody knows it pls reply it i want to have that movie