The Nazis declared the battle for the Demyansk “cauldron” their victory - the Reich even issued a special badge in memory of this bloody battle, which lasted a total of one and a half years. Revisionist historians also consider the “Demyansk Meat Grinder” to be Stalin’s defeat - after all, the Red Army failed to eliminate the encircled enemy group. However, German losses at Demyansk were, by the standards of the Wehrmacht, completely catastrophic, exorbitant, and unacceptable. It was here that the first elite of the famous SS division “Totenkopf” was destroyed. “They may object to me: they say that the “Totenkopf” existed until the end of the war. Yes, but this was no longer the same division that started the war. The old one died on the outskirts of the Valdai Hills, where she was so eager to reach, but did not reach. The bones of its officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates lie on the territory of the “Demyansk cauldron” and the “Ramushevsky corridor” ... ”A new book from the author of the bestseller “The Massacre of Demyansk”, based on a comparison of German and Soviet documents, sheds light on the defeat of the 3rd SS Division “Totenkopf” and Stalin’s slandered victory.