There is a great deal of difference (and not “Nuances”) between SS units (some of which participated in “Einsatzgruppen” atrocities), and the Brandenburg Regiment. One was the military arm of a political movement, the other? A highly trained (and motivated) special operations unit that conducted direct action (raids, etc), intelligence operations, guerrilla and counter guerilla operations in every theatre (usually independently and quite far behind enemy lines) the Germans operated in, some of these small units were active deep within the Soviet Union for quite a time after the end of WW2. Wegener is quite not off base when he remarked that some of the SO knowledge base for the Israelis (as well as for most of the professional armies) comes from lessons learned by units like the BR (and the OSS, and the SOE) during the most costly war in history.
