In the military history of the 20th century, we probably don't find many topics that arouse as much interest as Himmler's Waffen-SS. Whether this interest is motivated by admiration or shame is debatable. The Waffen-SS will probably forever be a source of controversy. They are accused of brutality and devotion to the Nazi regime. On the other hand, their positive values, such as military camaraderie, bravery or reliability, are not forgotten. The Waffen-SS served a criminal regime, but their high combat value is a fact. 8,200 citizens of the Slovak state were conscripted into the Waffen-SS, which is not an insignificant number. One of them was Gustav Wendrinský. And he wasn't just any ordinary soldier. His story is for anyone interested in learning about history as it really was. Many books have been written about the flying aces, the extremely successful fighter squadrons of the Second World War. Most of them come from German authors. Their heroes board planes and head for enemy armories, fortresses, and bridges. In these books it is not written that the planes destroyed not only armories, ammunition depots and other military objects, but also cities where tens of thousands of inhabitants lived. Anti-tank gunners can at least be said to have focused on purely military targets. In the Second World War, tank units played a prime role. The consequence of this was, among other things, that new heroes appeared, opponents of these terrifying weapons: anti-tank gunners. The most successful were considered heroes only in a narrow circle of their comrades. Already at the beginning of the war, several extraordinary anti-tank shooters appeared. One of them was Gustav Wendrinský, a native of Bratislava. In the years 1940–1945 he served in the Waffen-SS, specifically in the 8th SS-Kavallerie-Division Florian Geyer. During the retreating battles in Russia, he destroyed 45 enemy tanks with a single gun (he knocked out four tanks with an armored fist), which is the highest number of tanks destroyed by a single anti-tank gun in World War II (in a single day, Wendrinsky scored six T-34 tanks!). Some readers may see this book as a celebration of the Waffen-SS units. However, the author's intention was to show that men with ominous runes on their shop windows, who committed terrible crimes and atrocities, were at the same time the best German soldiers. Among them were also thousands of men who, in the field units, performed their combat tasks alongside the army and did not participate in war crimes. Gustav Wendrinský was one of them. His name will forever remain synonymous with the anti-tank ace.