Oskar Dirlewanger — The Nazi Psychopath So Evil He Made Even Other Nazis Throw Up
The Eastern Front was extremely brutal, but there was a unit whose excesses were too much even for the Nazis — the Dirlewanger Brigade
The more and more you read about the Nazis, the more you are shocked about the crimes against humanity they committed. They did the atrocities so disgusting most of us couldn’t even make them up.
However, even among the Nazis, there were individuals who stood out in terms of sadistic cruelty. These persons sent chills down the spines of the most hardened Nazis. One of such monsters was Oskar Dirlewanger.
He was a sadistic expert in the extermination of the Jews, a psychopathic killer, and a child molester who got to command his own unit — the disgusting Dirlewanger Brigade.
“In all the theaters of the Second World War, few could compete in cruelty with Dirlewanger.”
— Timothy Snyder, an American historian
Not only the Allies, but also the Nazis themselves saw Dirlewanger as the worst kind of scum.
“…a mentally unstable, violent fanatic…
