My mistake. the SS was nuts. Know a Lt who captured a bunch of them and he said they were nuts. Something had to be taken down from a beam a hundred feet up. He sent the SS POWS to do it. They did handstands on the beams. There are eerie resemblences to the German Green party of today and the pseudo-religion the SS developed.
that's putting it mildly. I've studied the conflict for years including several histories of the SS itself. Essentially they became victims of their own battlefield successes (this applies to the Waffen SS). The Wermacht generally disliked the SS troops because the SS lorded it over everyone, always got the best equippment and the most supplies.
In the attack and defense they were fanatical. Wermacht generals got in the habit of calling the local SS troops in whenever there was a particularly tough objective. They knew that the SS soldiers would rather die than fail or retreat. So the Generals got in the habit of feeding them into the meat grinder whenever possible - in part, I'm convinced, to spare Wermacht troops at the expense of the SS.
Their casualty rates were double or triple the regular army. But it also made them feared where ever they showed up. No one liked to tangle with those nut jobs.