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The death of Oskar Dirlewanger.

Earlier we saw how Oskar Dirlewanger fought in WW1 where despite being badly wounded several times, always willingly returned to the front. Despite the end of the war, he managed to bring 600 men back to Germany from occupation duties in the east. He joined Freikorps units fighting against socialist insurgents in Germany and ethnic Poles in Silesia. He was wounded once more in 1921 and this time it was bad enough to get him knocked out of the para military for some time. He was an early member of the NSDAP. He went to university and got a degree. When the Nazis were granted power in 1933, like many old fighters he was given a job here in Heilbronn in south western Germany. However he seems to have resented some of the jobs given to other old fighters, jobs they clearly were not capable of doing, whilst he had a university education and was qualified for the position he had been given. This caused jealousy and Dirlewanger found himself being investigated for rape amongst other charges. He went to prison and on getting out decided to go to Spain and fight in the war there. His old friend from the WW1, Gottlob Berger took him under his wing. Berger was by this time high up in the NS administration. Berger arranged for him to head a special unit to do particularly dirty tasks that others might not want to do. The composition of the troops under him was mainly made up of former prisoners, recruited from here, the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. These men were based around a core of people convicted of poaching and "professional criminals" to expelled SS officers. The character of their leader and his rigorous troop leadership made the Dirlewanger special commando one of the most notorious units of the war. Even during its deployment in the General Government, it had attracted attention through high-handedness and brutal excesses. On 2 November 1941, SS judge Konrad Morgen, who was then working at the SS and Police Court VI in Krakow, reported to the SS Court headquarters on daily arrests, extortion of money and looting of Jews by members of the unit. The looted items were then sold to other Jews. Dirlewanger is said to have had "strange relationships with pretty Jewish women" and then killed them by injecting them with strychnine. The Lublin ghetto was literally pillaged by Dirlewanger and his men. The SS and police leader in charge there, Globocnik, knew this but did nothing about it. The head of the local Gestapo, SS-Sturmbannführer Johannes Müller, who was subordinate to him, called the Dirlewanger command a "plague on the land". Morgen presented the Higher SS and Police Leader in the General Government, Krüger, with an arrest warrant against Dirlewanger, but Krüger declared himself incompetent in such matters and forwarded the complaint to Berger. The result was Dirlewanger's transfer to Belarus. When resistance activity in the Lublin district rose sharply and police reinforcements were requested, Gottlob Berger made the following telling remark in a letter to Himmler dated 17 June 1942 "Perhaps it is now also a warning that a wild country is being turned into a 'fine country'. The rules of civilised society cannot govern here and that the principle of the special commando, 'better to shoot two Poles too many than one too few', was the right one." The Dirlewanger unit carried out the fight against partisans in Belarus by using the most brutal means. If partisans were found in a village or if a village had not fulfilled its delivery quota of agricultural products, the entire population was killed in the most cruel way: everyone, including women and children, were locked in barns, which were set on fire and those trying to get out were shot at random. The companies involved in the actions then arrived at their quarters with whole wagons full of loot. This action against the population, such as the senseless destruction of villages, repeatedly provoked protests from the General Commissioner for Belarus, Wilhelm Kube; however, his complaints to Rosenberg, the Minister for the Eastern Territories were ineffective. The brutality of the troops was, however, justified in the opinion of Berger who said that the behavior of their commanding officer exceeded all expectations. During the suppression of the uprising in Warsaw in August and September 1944, Dirlewanger allowed his men to loot. He himself not only took part in this, but even shot members of his unit in order to get hold of the jewelry they had stolen.   / historysite   Please consider supporting me on Patreon.   / alanheath   For whoever does the alleged manual control at YouTube. The community guidelines are here : https://support.google.com/youtube/an... I suggest you read them. If you decide that this video is in breach of any of them, I suggest you tell me precisely where.