The Dirlewanger Brigade, also known as the 2.SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger, or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, or The Black Hunters, was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The un
Oskar Dirlewanger in 1944.
Motorcycle reconnaissance platoon in full combat gear.
SS-Grenadier Karl Hans Jung was a career criminal who was transferred to the SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger for probation service.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Oskar Dirlewanger and battalion staff at their quarters in Łohojsk (Tyszkiewicz Palace), 1943. SS-Oberscharführer Heinz Feiertag (second from left) can be seen wearing the Bandenkampfabzeichen.
A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings, massacres, or enforced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, revolu
Dirlewanger Brigade
…anti-partisan operations in Belarus. The unit is regarded as the most brutal and notorious Waffen-SS unit, with its soldiers described as "The ideal genocidal killers who neither gave nor expected quarter." The unit is regarded as the most infamous Waffen-SS unit in Poland and Belarus, and arguably the worst military unit in modern European history in…
Italian soldiers shooting Slovenian hostages. 31 July 1942
Cristero rebels publicly hanged on telegraph poles in Jalisco, Mexico. The bodies often remained on the poles until the pueblo or town renounced public religious practice.
A billboard serving as a reminder of one of many massacres that occurred during the civil war