Oskar Dirlewanger
German Nazi military officer and SS Regiment/Brigade Commander (1895-1945) · Germany · Politicians · Died at 49
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Something wrong?Oskar Paul Dirlewanger 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 which served in World War II.
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Oskar Dirlewanger while as a Freikorpsführer
Dirlewanger in 1934
Gottlob Berger, Dirlewanger's patron and protector
Oskar Dirlewanger at a parade in Heilbronn, 1937
SS-Obersturmbannführer Dirlewanger (right) standing next to a group of NSDAP officials at a Nazi parade near Kielmeyerhaus, Germany, in December 1943. Dirlewanger was still recuperating from a gunshot wound to his chest, received during anti-partisan operations in Belarus, explaining why he is holding a cane and saluting with his left arm.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Oskar Dirlewanger and an SS-Oberscharführer resting during an anti-partisan operation in Belarus, 1943
SS-Obersturmbannführer Oskar Dirlewanger and battalion staff outside of their headquarter in Lohoisk, 1943Awards
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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger 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 which served in World War II. Dirlewanger's unit is often considered the most notorious Waffen-SS unit, committing some of the conflict's most infamous atrocities, with Dirlewanger himself regarded as perhaps Nazi Germany's "most extreme executioner", engaging in constant acts of violence, rape, and murder. He died after the war while in Allied custody.
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