Another one that should have never been in charge of anything. Let alone giving him any sort of power.
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Listened to the Behind the Bastards on him, his biography reads like he was competing with himself to be the most evil piece of waste he could year upon year.
Apparently tortured to death by Polish guards after his capture though there were many whacky theories that he´d survived after this.
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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – c. 7 June 1945) was a German military officer, convicted child molester, and war criminal. He is best known for commanding the Dirlewanger Brigade, a penal military unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit became infamous for committing some of the war’s worst atrocities, with Dirlewanger himself widely regarded as perhaps Nazi Germany’s “most extreme executioner,” engaging in systematic acts of violence, rape, and murder. He died after the war while in Allied custody.
Dirlewanger began his career as a junior officer in World War I, where he distinguished himself in combat. Following the war, he took part in post-war unrest in Germany as a commander within the Freikorps militias, whose operations were marked by extreme violence. He later fought in the Spanish Civil War. Dirlewanger was also a habitual criminal; during the interwar period, he was convicted in Germany for raping a minor and for other offenses.
During World War II, he was appointed to lead a special Waffen-SS unit—later named the Dirlewanger Brigade—composed largely of convicts and prisoners recruited from concentration camps. Serving mainly in occupied Poland and Belarus, Dirlewanger and his men carried out widespread atrocities, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. His methods routinely included rape, torture, and mass executions, and he personally enslaved numerous women for sexual abuse. Dirlewanger’s unit played a major role in the Warsaw Uprising (1944), where it committed some of the worst crimes of the German suppression campaign.
His brutality extended beyond enemy populations to his own troops, whom he frequently beat or executed for minor infractions. The Dirlewanger Brigade is regarded as the most infamous unit to have operated in Belarus and Poland, and is often described as one of the most criminal and depraved military forces in modern European history.
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Another one that should have never been in charge of anything. Let alone giving him any sort of power.
Listened to the Behind the Bastards on him, his biography reads like he was competing with himself to be the most evil piece of waste he could year upon year.
Apparently tortured to death by Polish guards after his capture though there were many whacky theories that he´d survived after this.
Oskar Paul Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – c. 7 June 1945) was a German military officer, convicted child molester, and war criminal. He is best known for commanding the Dirlewanger Brigade, a penal military unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit became infamous for committing some of the war’s worst atrocities, with Dirlewanger himself widely regarded as perhaps Nazi Germany’s “most extreme executioner,” engaging in systematic acts of violence, rape, and murder. He died after the war while in Allied custody.
Dirlewanger began his career as a junior officer in World War I, where he distinguished himself in combat. Following the war, he took part in post-war unrest in Germany as a commander within the Freikorps militias, whose operations were marked by extreme violence. He later fought in the Spanish Civil War. Dirlewanger was also a habitual criminal; during the interwar period, he was convicted in Germany for raping a minor and for other offenses.
During World War II, he was appointed to lead a special Waffen-SS unit—later named the Dirlewanger Brigade—composed largely of convicts and prisoners recruited from concentration camps. Serving mainly in occupied Poland and Belarus, Dirlewanger and his men carried out widespread atrocities, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians. His methods routinely included rape, torture, and mass executions, and he personally enslaved numerous women for sexual abuse. Dirlewanger’s unit played a major role in the Warsaw Uprising (1944), where it committed some of the worst crimes of the German suppression campaign.
His brutality extended beyond enemy populations to his own troops, whom he frequently beat or executed for minor infractions. The Dirlewanger Brigade is regarded as the most infamous unit to have operated in Belarus and Poland, and is often described as one of the most criminal and depraved military forces in modern European history.
Source: Wikipedia