Oskar Dirlewanger
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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger was a German military officer, mass murderer and war criminal. He commanded the Dirlewanger Brigade, a penal military unit of the Waffen-SS which served in World War II. Dirlewa
Dirlewanger in August 1944
Oskar Dirlewanger while as a Freikorpsführer
Dirlewanger in 1934
Gottlob Berger, Dirlewanger's patron and protector
The Russian Liberation People's Army, also known as the Kaminski Brigade or the Waffen-Sturm-Brigade RONA, was a collaborationist military formation composed of Russian nationals from the territory of
Oskar Dirlewanger
…stolen property for personal use. His unit is considered to have committed the worst crimes of the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, alongside the Kaminski Brigade, though Timothy Snyder described the behavior of Dirlewanger as being even worse. Besides brutality to civilians and captured enemy combatants, Dirlewanger…
Brigade's commanding officers during the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising, August 1944
B. V. Kaminski, RONA headquarters officers, and German police officers. Photograph taken on 21 March 1944 by G. Wehmeyer, a serviceman of the 697th Wehrmacht Propaganda Company (3rd Tank Army)
Bronislav Kaminski and personnel of the Volksheer-Brigade Kaminski during Operation Frühlingsfest, Belarus, May 1944
Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 280 1075 11A, Russland, Brigadekommandeur Borislaw Kaminski