The Misfit Brigade is a 1987 American television film loosely based on Sven Hassel's novel Wheels of Terror.
Ignoring an air raid warden, Porta, Tiny, Stege, Old Man and Sven rescue the woman's "baby" only for it to turn out to be her cat.
More wildly improbable situations follow, including Little Legionnaire beating Tiny in a fight, before they are sent to the Russian Front.
Back at the German lines the platoon witness enemy propaganda before having a wild escapade at a field brothel, returning to their bunker only to find out they're being ordered on a suicide mission to blow up a train with oil filled tanker cars.
The colonel says that they will be rewarded with long furloughs and promotion out of the penal corps An intelligence soldier, a fanatical Nazi, is assigned to them and the mission is to blow up a train 160kms inside the Russian lines.
They end up in a mine field and abandon the tank, and continue on foot through a swamp where they meet two other German soldiers who have deserted.
Bauer, Muller, Seigfried, "Freckles" the kid, and the Captain are dead, until he shows up at the medal ceremony minus an eye and wounded.
In a surprise cameo, the general (Oliver Reed) screams at them, telling them they will be court martialed and punished for their insubordination.
The squad follow them to the plane, form a line, and execute the officers as the whistling theme plays.
The film has been described as "a German Dirty Dozen",[2] due to its story of military prisoners forced on a suicide mission deep behind enemy lines.