 as the best fighting man, not only in that war, but in almost any war ever fought. The judgment is wrong. The Wehrmacht had many fine units and many outstanding soldiers, but they were not supermen. Not even the Waffen SS elite troops of 1944-45 were much, if any, better than ordinary Allied troops. And the Allied elite units, the Airborne and Rangers and Commandos, were better than anything the Germans put into the field.