Knights perhaps caught treacherous nazi soldiers (8)
I believe the answer is:
chessmen
'knights perhaps' is the definition.
(knight is a kind of chessman)
'caught treacherous nazi soldiers' is the wordplay.
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'treacherous nazi' becomes 'hess' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'treacherous' bit.).
'soldiers' becomes 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers).
'c'+'hess'+'men'='CHESSMEN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chessmen that I've seen before include "Knights, bishops, rooks etc" , "Bishops and knights, say" , "'Bishops, pawns etc (8)'" , "Pawns, knights, bishops etc - males only" , "Board pieces" .)