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    OSKAR DIRLEWANGER

    Jun 10, 2021 3 minutes
    “A MENTALLY UNSTABLE, VIOLENT FANATIC”

    The above quote from a police report on Oskar Dirlewanger goes some way to describing a mind of unfathomable cruelty. Before WWII, where he committed many heinous crimes, Dirlewanger was already widely feared within the German military for being unhinged, unpredictable and dangerous.

    By the end of the war, Dirlewanger had overseen and personally taken part in the torture, rape and murder of thousands of civilians in Germany, Belarus and Poland, all under the thin guise of eliminating ‘bandits’ behind the frontline. He

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