This game description sounds weirdly familiar:

The game begins n the spring of 1944, at prison camp Stalag Luft 13; with Colonel Hogan (the player) recruiting Jewish-American soldiers to join Hogan's Basterds (who are able to easily exit and enter their prison camp undetected), for the purpose of spreading fear among the German soldiers by brutally killing and scalping them behind enemy lines .
Colonel Hogan and his band are aided by the incompetence of the camp commandant Colonel Klink and Sergeant of the Guard Schultz who wants to avoid trouble more than anything.
Hogan routinely manipulates Klink and gets Schultz to look the other way while his men conduct covert operations.
Klink and Schultz are constantly at risk of being transferred to the cold and bloody Russian Front, and Hogan helps to keep the duo in place if for no other reason for fear of their being replaced by more competent soldiers.