Quentin Tarantino's film borrowed its title from a real unit, and this documentary tracks down the actual story behind it. Jewish American soldiers, some of them refugees who fled Nazi Germany before the war, volunteered for missions that sent them behind enemy lines in occupied Europe, where capture meant something far worse than it did for other GIs. Historians and archival records trace how these men were recruited, trained, and used for sabotage, interrogation, and psychological operations aimed at demoralizing German troops. The film separates Hollywood invention from documented history, showing what these units actually did rather than the revenge fantasy Tarantino built from their name. Interviews with historians sit alongside period photographs and archival footage of the European theater to reconstruct missions that rarely made it into official war histories at the time. The result is less about vengeance than about identity: what it meant to fight, under American uniform, against the regime that had already marked you and your family for destruction.