Oskar Dirlewanger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Oskar Dirlewanger

German SS commander

Date of Birth: 26-Sep-1895

Place of Birth: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 07-Jun-1945

Profession: politician, military officer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Oskar Paul Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – c.
7 June 1945) was a German military officer (SS-Oberführer) and war criminal who served as the founder and commander of the Nazi SS penal unit "Dirlewanger" during World War II.
Serving in Poland and then elsewhere on the eastern front, his name is closely linked to some of the most notorious crimes of the war.
He also fought in World War I, the post-World War I conflicts, and the Spanish Civil War.
He reportedly died after World War II while in Allied custody, apparently beaten to death by his guards, though lack of evidence has led to theories of him escaping. Dirlewanger is invariably described as an extremely cruel person by historians and researchers, including as "a psychopathic killer and child molester" by Steven Zaloga, "violently sadistic" by Richard Rhodes, "an expert in extermination and a devotee of sadism and necrophilia" by J.
Bowyer Bell, and "a sadist and necrophiliac" by Bryan Mark Rigg.
According to Timothy Snyder, "in all the theaters of the Second World War, few could compete in cruelty with Dirlewanger".