March 1940, Nazi Germany.

After consulting
with the Reich’s SS leader Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler approves the
creation of a special combat unit composed exclusively of people serving a prison
sentence for poaching and related crimes.

This combat unit is recruited to fight partisans in
mountainous areas.

Soon, murderers, psychopaths, sexual deviants, and rapists of the worst degree
will become members of this unit which will terrorize the civilians and commit unspeakable
atrocities mostly in Poland and Belarus.

Its commander becomes Oskar Dirlewanger,
one of the most sadistic Nazi criminals.

Oskar Dirlewanger was born on the 26th of
September 1895 and his father was a merchant.

After the outbreak of WW1, Dirlewanger
took part in the German invasion of Belgium and later fought in France.

He was wounded
6 times, received the Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class and in November 1918, at the time of
Germany’s surrender, he held a rank of lieutenant.

The front experiences had a damaging
effect on Dirlewanger’s personality.

When WW1 ended, Oskar Dirlewanger was described
as a mentally unstable, violent fanatic and alcoholic.

People with such personality traits
were top candidates for the Nazi party and SA which Oskar Dirlewanger joined in 1923.

One year
earlier in 1922, he had completed his studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and
received his doctorate in political science.

Oskar Dirlewanger was also a pedophile and
rapist.

In 1934 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.

As a result, he lost his doctorate, was expelled from the Nazi party
and SA, and 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 after 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 which he had
lost for having raped a 13-year-old girl.

WW2 started on the 1st September 1939 and in
July 1940 Dirlewanger was admitted to the SS.

He created and trained a special criminal unit
named the Dirlewanger Brigade which at the beginning 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 in
ghetto in Lublin.

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 of them.

Heinrich Himler 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”.

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.

As with the Einsatzgruppen which were Nazi
death squads operating behind the front line in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, Dirlewanger
unit made their victims, often naked, kneel down on the edge of a mass grave as
Dirlewanger’s kommando shot them in the back of the neck with an automatic pistol and then
the bodies dropped straightly into the pit.

On 1 August 1944 the Warsaw Uprising
began and Dirlewanger and his men participated in its suppression
while committing unspeakable crimes.

During the uprising, they also took part in the
Wola massacre during which more than 40,000 Poles were murdered in the Wola neighborhood of the
Polish capital.

This massacre was ordered by Adolf Hitler himself, who requested to kill “anything
that moves” in order to stop the Warsaw Uprising.

The Dirlewanger Brigade burned 3
hospitals with patients inside.

The nurses were whipped, gang-raped
and hanged naked together with doctors.

He did not have any mercy even with children.

When
they found a daycare with 500 children inside, Dirlewanger ordered his man to kill of them.

Because he wanted his men to save their bullets, they killed the poor children
with rifle butts and bayonets.

In the Old Town of Warsaw, thousands of civilians,
and prisoners of war, regardless of gender and age, were raped and murdered.

Many of them
were shot or set on fire with flamethrowers.

The Warsaw uprising lasted 63 days ending on
the 2nd of October 1944.

Even though the Red Army was in the suburbs of Warsaw, it did
not help the Poles.

It is believed that a major reason why Stalin decided not to support
the uprising was because he wanted to establish a pro-Soviet communist regime in Poland and a
successful uprising of the rebels, who supported the democratic Polish government-in-exile
in London, could threaten his plans.

It is estimated that more than 150,000
civilians died in the Warsaw Uprising.

For his merits in the suppression
of the uprising, Oskar Dirlewanger was promoted and awarded the
Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross In October 1944, Dirlewanger and his men
played a crucial role in a brutal suppression of the Slovak National Uprising which lasted
from the 29th of August to the 28th October 1944.

Later they took part in fights against the
advancing Red Army in Hungary and Germany.

After the end of the war, Oskar Dirlewanger
was arrested on the 1st of June, 1945.

Although he was wearing civilian
clothes and using a false name, he was recognized by a Jewish former concentration
camp prisoner and brought to a detention center.

Dirlewanger died on the 7th of June, 1945.

Officially, he died of a heart attack.

However, the truth is that after he had been
recognized by former Polish prisoners, they beat him to death in revenge for his
brutality in suppressing the Warsaw Uprising.

There were no tears shed for Oskar Dirlewanger.