Oskar Dirlewanger

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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger was a German SS officer. He was the commander of the penal unit known as the Dirlewanger Brigade, considered to be the most notorious part of the Waffen-SS. His unit epitomized the expansion of the war of terror in its most brutal form, with Dirlewanger himself regarded as perhaps the Nazi regime's "most extreme executioner," He died after the war while in Allied custody.

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