Oskar Dirlewanger - Bestial Nazi SS Officer & Chief of Dirlewanger Brigade - Warsaw Uprising. Oskar Dirlewanger was born on the 26th of September 1895 in Würzburg, then part of the German Empire. The First World War began on the 28th of July 1914. Dirlewanger took part in the German invasion of Belgium and later fought in France. He was wounded 6 times and even though he was classified as 40 percent disabled, he reported back to the front. He received the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class and in November 1918, at the time of Germany's surrender, he held a rank of lieutenant.
However, the front experiences had a damaging effect on Dirlewanger’s personality. When the First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918, Oskar Dirlewanger was described as a mentally unstable, violent fanatic and alcoholic.
In the new Weimar Republic, which was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, Oskar Dirlewanger joined various Freikorps right-wing paramilitary militias. Freikorps were ostensibly mustered to fight on behalf of the government against the Communists attempting to overthrow the Weimar Republic. They acted with particular brutality and violence and many of its units proved to be rebellious and difficult for the German government and military to control.
In 1921 while serving with one of the Freikorps units, Dirlewanger was shot in the head.
In the meantime he studied at the university and in 1922 received his doctorate in political science.
In October of the same year, Dirlewanger joined the Nazi Party and from 1928 to 1931 he was managing director of the textile company which belonged to a Jewish family. However, he was accused of several cases of embezzlement and then worked as a self-employed tax consultant until July 1933.
However, Dirlewanger was not only a thief but also a pedophile and rapist. In 1934, one year after Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power, he raped a 13-year-old girl from the League of German Girls which was the female section of Hitler Youth. He was also convicted of driving and damaging a government vehicle under the influence of alcohol and as a result, he lost his doctorate in political science, was expelled from the Nazi party and SA, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
After his release, between 1936 and 1939 he fought in the Condor Legion which was a German military unit sent to Spain to support General Franco's Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War. It was a great opportunity for Nazi Germany to test and develop methods of strategic bombing which were soon used during the Second World War.
Dirlewanger was wounded 3 times and after his return, he was again allowed to join the Nazi Party and regained his doctorate.
The Second World War started on the 1st September 1939 and in July of the following year Dirlewanger was admitted to the SS. He created and trained a special criminal unit named the Dirlewanger Brigade which at that time consisted mostly of convicted poachers. They were recruited thanks to their tracking and shooting skills to fight partisans. Later, his unit recruited mostly convicted German criminals.
At first, his unit was sent to Nazi-occupied Poland where Dirlewanger became a commandant of a camp at Stary Dzików which was set up for the Jewish slave labor. They committed atrocities here as well as at the Lublin Ghetto. They used to undress the young Jewish female prisoners, then they whipped them and injected them with strychnine. They were laughing as the poor victims were convulsing to death in front of them. There were even rumors that they used to cut up Jewish women and boiled them with horse meat to make soap out of them.
Heinrich Himmler as well as Dirlewanger’ s patron and friend Gottlob Berger knew about these atrocities and tolerated them. They needed men like Dirlewanger in their fight against the so called “non-aryan subhumans”. After the war, Berger said: “Dr. Dirlewanger was hardly a good boy. You can't say that. But he was a good soldier, and he had one big mistake that he didn't know when to stop drinking.”
The SS judge Georg Konrad Morgen accused Dirlewanger of wanton acts of murder and corruption. The dissolution of the unit was considered and Dirlewanger himself was supposed to stand before the SS court in the case of so called "race defilement" for rapes against Jewish "women" but ultimately none of this came to fruition. Instead, in February 1942 the Dirlewanger Brigade was sent to Belorus where they not only raped and tortured young women, but also killed at least 30,000 Belarusian civilians. Their specialty was to cram the local population inside a barn and then set it on fire. Whoever tried to escape from the burning barn, was shoot with a machine gun. In some villages, they murdered all their inhabitants.
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