Ebook: The SS Dirlewanger Brigade (The History of the Black Hunters)
Author: Christian Ingrao
- Genre: History // Military History
- Tags: SS Dirlewanger World War Two Criminals Atrocities
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
- Language: English
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The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The members of the brigade were released prisonersincluding men who had been convicted of burglary, assault, murder, and rapewho were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Under the leadership of Oscar Dirlewanger, a convicted rapist, this was the group used for its special talents” to help put down the Jewish uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto, killing an estimated 35,000 men, women, and children in one day.
Based on the archives from Germany, Poland, and Russia, The SS Dirlewanger Brigade offers an unprecedented look at one of the darkest chapters of World War II.
Based on the archives from Germany, Poland, and Russia, The SS Dirlewanger Brigade offers an unprecedented look at one of the darkest chapters of World War II.
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