Oskar Dirlewanger: Tragic Killer

Oskar Dirlewanger was born on September 26, 1895 in Wurzburg, Germany and he died on June 7, 1945 in Altshausen, Germany. Oskar Dirlewanger was a German military officer who served as the founder and commander of the infamous Nazi SS penal unit named after his last name “Dirlewanger” during WWII. Some of the worst crimes were linked with his name. He fought in World War I, post WWI, and the Spanish Civil War. He died after World War II while in Allie's company, apparently beaten to death by guards. Dirlewanger is normally described as an extremely cruel character by historians and researchers, including as "a psychopathic killer and child molester". World War II historian Chris Bishop called him the "most evil man in the SS". Oskar Dirlewanger

After the end of World War I, Dirlewanger, had a police report as "a mentally unstable, violent frantic and alcoholic, who had the habit of throwing things into violence under the influence of drugs," joined different German volunteer units right-wing paramilitary militias and fought against German communists in Ruhr and Saxony, and against Polish nationalists in Upper Silesia. He participated in the suppression of an attempted to overthrow the government, the German Revolution of 1918–19, with the Freikorps in the cities of Backnang, Kornwestheim, Esslingen, Untertürkheim, Aalen, Schorndorf and Heidenheim near Stuttgart, in the Ruhr at Dortmund and Essen in 1920, and in eastern Germany in 1920 and 1921. During this period Dirlewanger served in Freikorps Epp, Freikorps Haas, Freikorps Sprösser, and Freikorps Holz. Later, he commanded an armed formation of students which was set up by him under the Württemberg "Highway Watch". On Easter Sunday 1921, Dirlewanger commanded an armoured train that moved towards Sangerhausen, which had been occupied by the Communist Party of Germany militia group of Max Hoelz in one of their raids

Between his militant, he studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt and in 1922 obtained a Doctorate in political science. The following year, he joined the NSDAP and its SA militia, and later also the SS. From 1928-1931 he was an executive director of a textile factory owned by a Jewish family in Erfurt where he renounced active service in the Sturmabteilung, possibly obtaining the money by embezzling from his company. Dirlewanger held various jobs, which included working at a bank and a knit-wear factory. He was also repeatedly convicted for illegal arms possession and theft. In 1934, he was convicted and sentenced to two years of prison for the rape of a 14-year-old girl from the league of German girls, as well as the illegal use of a government vehicle and damaging said vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. Dirlewanger also lost his job, his doctor title and all military honours, and was expelled from the NSWP. Soon after his release from the prison in