The “Fallschirmjäger” have now been, throughout the war, merged inside the fighting systems of Luftwaffe for a better coordination along with the environment forces. The conquest of Crete during procedure Merkur, in May 1941, was in fact one of several main successes of German paratroopers. Nevertheless the casualties ended up being indeed therefore high that their usage had been certainly often restricted to towards the most effective infantry component over as airborne troops. In March 1944, General Kurt scholar's first Division Fallschirmjäger, keeping their ground one of many ruins of Monastery of Montecassino, strenuously resisted the advancing Allies. Their opposition had been certainly for that reason intense that they were nicknamed the “Green Devils”.
