The SS-Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger"
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The SS-Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger"

A Memoir

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The SS-Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger"

A Memoir

About this book

A rare look inside the Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger," the SS anti-partisan unit notorious for atrocities in Poland and Russia during World War II. These memoirs were written by a former member of the unit from its formation in 1940 to the end of the war and took part in nearly all its operations. A first hand account of the brutal and barbaric methods used by Dirlewanger against partisans – methods that appalled even some SS commanders – are revealed here in this memoir. SS-Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger" was originally manned by convicted poachers, however as the war progressed replacements were found by emptying prisons and filling the ranks with more hardened criminals. Here are the chilling recollections of a soldier in the SS-Sonderkommando "Dirlewanger" during the Polish and Russian campaigns, the 1944 Warsaw uprising and the final battles near Berlin.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Childhood and Adolescence
  7. Poaching and Prison
  8. Enlistment in the Wilddiebkommando Oranienburg
  9. Deployment to the General Government
  10. Relocation to Belarus
  11. “Gypsies” and “Old Fighters” Strengthen the SS-Sonderbataillon “Dirlewanger”
  12. The Partisan War, 1943
  13. Operation in the Minsk Ghetto
  14. Decorations and Leave
  15. Back to Belarus with Career Criminals
  16. Deployment to the Front Lines near Polatsk
  17. I Shoot Down an Airplane
  18. We Line Up for a Counterattack
  19. “Social Misfits” from Concentration Camps as Battalion Reinforcements
  20. Retreat from Belarus
  21. Operation during the Warsaw Uprising
  22. Wehrmacht Felons, Turkmen, and SS and Police Convicts
  23. Political Prisoners
  24. Establishing the SS-Sturmbrigade “Dirlewanger”
  25. The Prisoners Defect
  26. I Become Company Commander
  27. The Battle for Lubisko and Guben
  28. Shooting Down a Tank
  29. Halbe
  30. The Last Days of the War and Returning Home
  31. War Captivity
  32. Postwar Period
  33. Looking Back At My Time as a Soldier
  34. Appendix