The WORST unit in the SS - the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade
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- Oskar Dirlewanger created an SS penal battalion known variously as SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, SS Sondereinheit Dirlewanger, the Dirlewanger Brigade, the Black Hunters, or the 36th SS Grenadier Division. This unit was full of criminals who took part in numerous "anti-partisan" operations in Belarus, Slovakia, and Hungary. It also engaged the Polish Home Army and civilians at Warsaw. This is the history of the unit and its commander.
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Ingrao, C. “The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters.” Skyhorse Publishing, Kindle 2011.
Richie, A. "Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City." William Collins, Kindle 2013.
Snyder, T. "Blood Lands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin." Vintage, 2011.
"The Warsaw Uprising of 1944: The History of the Polish Resistances Failed Attempt to Liberate Polands Capital from Nazi Germany." Charles Rivers Editors, Kindle.
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It's pretty bad when other SS units complain about your unit.
That's bad see Ustasha, the pseudo Germans Croatian Serbian Revolutionary Movement, foughtas free units like all nations all Europe even Americas as german nation, all of it.. entire land not settlements,, all Europeans, even illegal, neutral.. as voted to join literally or to be free, all British slave colonies,, all Germans had helped.. kindest folks ever could meet, anywhere on earth.. They put the babies in the cold floor,, then the British Bayonetted kiddies and laughing tossed them. Nailed to trees too! Most diverse force on earth, behaving cruel on folks liberated or glad Tobe rid do you know, do you have first hand verified, empirical true proof, letters home support they were there, any of these actions happened. All a I know is how kind living were, said wrote in documents never knew had, kreigsmarine command killed nobody not attacking killing civilians.. crossing ocean to murder in his home, bombing and fire bombing terrorism setting 15 million women and children alight, old folks unfit, all people of all ethnicities if lived in area. Policy none left, had to cook flames into sky near miles. Keil only sailors killed 5 of sub harbor bombing day and night hammering concrete and city. Killed plenty others, course loads allies thrown at infinately better fighters, just saying. My grand uncle Karl Petersen also went to French prison, have letters especially after, engineering medical all families businesses stolen lost land holdings. North to Church street Stuttgart castle horses dogs fortunes. Poorest to richest fastest, were rich prior still everything fought actually lived through French prison. Imagine like most wasn't meant too, if important had to punish for illegally losing against 53 nations killing all you know. Loosing war is capital crime, like fighting terrorism or defending self as human not ever a slave not to Rome not now while this guts were. Germans were close and free, near Italy saw slaves from UK. He's saddling Ustasha Crimes and everyday made up war, even in war even medical surgical hear lies the first victim. This channels silly propaganda, they said we hate to do what's in front of us, but must as love what's behind us. Meaning fight send them away or lose babies family, friends,all. Folks say I'd just be a coward and slave are liars or worse. Every creature saves its young, none will not fight. Despicable history Channel dang Germans bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki too, nobody returned from east. Nobody. Uncle git out late 46, back to starving as Weimar beginning and German ethnic genocide, Britain couldn't complete, bank empire fraud usury, scum. Churchill and rest hated backbones, look at loot Hitler got nothing asked for that, know saviors get the chop. Too good honest no oligarchs got concessions the most wicked of lies. Orwellian, see speeches, read texts, be shocked. Just went nuts greatest thinkers inventors culture, see IQ just of caught, not science. Leadership, I didn't believe those who never lie there and loved me, told warsI witnessed were different. Asked to lecture, said then you tell mystery my eyesight, iknow them all, texts even author. Tests are crap, film same no romance no heroes there. He won't have heard of it or know nothing, same as condor op. central South American. Because about your freedom, from chains banks interest taxinflation theft poverty,real votes. Wish all well pointless alter ot delete no time. Doing good no reason to deceive cancers eating me. My scars are real history in flesh, bullets pulled and wounds. He's wounding with bondage and treachery. Selling poison from our enemy, fake economic crime babylonian mob mafia. See standards of living, none touch now, yet richer, a few own more than us all from theft. Tommorow should be brighter for babies. YT new TV good luck. Fake as news. Monsters exist bit are rare. I'll get banned at best.Unsubsidized, unwatchable, imagine he said you did such evil, we are just regular folks.
Still better then the croats , your death camps have to be horrible when the german SS ambassador to your country is complaining to hilter directly at how inhumane your death camps are compared to theirs and yes germans shut down 2 of their early death camps on those grounds. The NDH freaked out the SS at how they dealt with the "undesirables "
When I clicked I thought it would be "worst" as in "most incompetent". But nope, just more torturing and murdering people.
‘Come on, Otto, mate. We’ve all massacred a village full of Jews here and there, I mean who hasn’t? But this is a bit much, old chap. Just really unpleasant stuff, you need to get your head looked at, mate.’
They were the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst of the worst.
My grandma was a little girl in 1944 and she and her parents lived in Wola, Warsaw when the Uprising began. She somehow managed to survive the slaughter orchestrated by Dirlewanger and Reinefahrt, but it scarred her for life (her mother also managed to survive, her father wasn't that lucky). But because of what she experienced and what she saw, for years she had problems sleeping at nights (every loud bang scared her shitless). Also, everytime she heard German language, she had flashbacks from the war which caused paralyzing fear. In the end, 30 years after the war, she managed to overcome the fears and went to a short trip to Berlin. Later she went to Austria and Switzerland as well. She is still alive (almost 90 years now) and in good health, but the memories of war are still strong.
I learned about this in the documentary Europa the last battle. I take it you have seen it as well?
Sorry, I don't indulge myself in nazi propaganda.
"Shitless"
@@dudebro3250 Seen a film - her Grandma was bloody well in it!!!!!
It's fascinating how someone can go through all of that and still choose to thrust that life onto a new person. Think before you breed.
This is why people need to stop throwing around the term "nazi" so flippantly and causually to anyone who doesn't share the same beliefs. The violence and evil here is beyond imagination.
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The crucial thing is the notion of racial / national superiority. That's the essence of Nazism. If someone thinks that he is superior by race or by nationality then you can speak only about grades of Nazism. The end result will be roughly the same.
@@colder5465 you can think that you are better then me, but as long as you dont do me wrong i dont care. Stop with this crap. Calling a man who does not wave LGBT flag a nazi and then invate an actual nazi to parlament.
exactly.
But a lot of people are Nazi weirdos
As someone who has served in a combat arms unit, I can tell you for certain there are today Dirlewangers just waiting for the green light to unleash the evil inside of them. One fellow in my unit, before joining the military, put a rope around a cat's neck, hung it from a swing set bar, doused it with rubbing alcohol and set it on fire burning it alive, laughing as it twisted on the rope trying to evade the flames on its body. He would throw more alcohol on it as the flames died down. He told me this over some beers. He had no shame whatsoever. Had we gone to war, I might have been tempted to cause an incident of "friendly fire."
When I first saw a photo of Dirlewanger my first thought was a man sick in the head, a "sick f0k". He has the same look of an alcoholic man I knew of, a scary man prone to violent outbursts and rages when the drink took hold of him.
Yes, there are Dirlewangers around and some of you may have met similar people who hold themselves on a leash to prevent the community from coming out with pitchforks and torches to remove the evil monster.
He would have gotten "Friendly F**ed"
Jesus christ, oh my God. Thanks for telling this story. Its important for more people to learn about this.
Oh man, what a tosser. He probably didn't win the friendship of that which is why he did it. Pathetic. You should surely go to jail for doing that.
@@mapac8866 - This is often how Psychopathy is detected in Children.
He sounds like definite frag material for sure. Like that video from the early days of the internet of the soldier throwing puppies off of a cliff. Those type of people are the true evil face of war.
The SS: This unit is going way too far.
The Japanese: Amateurs
these guys surpassed the japanese in war crimes
Idk they actually seem about the same to me...
@@moritamikamikara3879 not really
The eastern front was far worse than Pacific theatre
Unfortunately we have to make the Americans the heroes
Always one moron who weepingly defends the Nazis by bleating about the Japanese
@@Mongol_barbarian Nah.
I live in Warsaw. My grandparents and mom were here during the Uprising. I have heard more than enough about those degenerates, for obvious reasons. I am actually glad that you present them to wider audience.
Its not good for discourse to ommit the realities, pick and choose without understanding of what transpired during Warsaw uprising.
Your lot started the war and bit off more then you could chew. You lot wernt innocent. Poles murdered thousand ethnic Germans in Poland in summer of 1939.
Last time I visited Warsaw was in the pre-Solidarity era as a (naive) 20-year old Englishman. I'd heard about the Warsaw uprising, Auschwitz et al but was quite unprepared when confronted with the realities of the remains of the Ghetto in Warsaw and the camp outside Krakow. What I also found particularly moving were the many small stones scattered in various streets and on street corners in and around Warsaw. I thought they were simply milestones (as here in the UK for example) but upon investigation they all commemorated the murder of numbers of Poles by the Germans, particularly during the Uprising ... 10 people here, 100 people there and so on. So many lost...
pretty sure a guy gonna come to this comment and blaming the soviet for not saving the Uprising
@@duongngole4785 Why are you saying this? Do you feel that Soviets are unfairly criticized?
Oh man, this guy. This is what happens when a serial killer gets handed power and autonomy during the chaos of a war. A perfect storm of unaccountable sadism. What a nightmarish situation.
Well, he wasn't a serial killer until WW2. He was a "playdoh" though (you know what I mean). So this is what happens when you put a "playdoh" in power during the chaos of war. So let's hope our western governments don't go to war any time soon...
@@TheImperatorKnight @TIKhistory Fair enough, I read he had a very shady history before the war, however I haven't actually watched the video yet and you probably mention this. I'm looking forward to watching. Also yes, war is just absolutely horrible and it's just so easy for people to get overly reproachful towards the appeasement and pacifism of the 1930s when we are so distant from our last major conflict.
@@TheImperatorKnight China iran Russia north korea vs nato. hehehehe. Best
@@TheImperatorKnight this is similar to my not very popular theory of war unleashing the 2/4% of the population who are clinically psychopathic. They behave in peaceful civilised society because of the incentives and punishments.
Its a little more than that, he was gleefully following heinous orders to exterminate civilians, rather than a psychopath taking advantage of a situation.
Glad to see my former teacher in ww2 history, Christian Ingrao, as your reference, it's a very cultivated man, and I really enjoy your content, keep up the good work TIK
Just read the book, he’s a brilliant author. Do you speak French ?
@@nickjohnson6368 I'm french ahah
The village massacre scene in the Russian movie Come And See is probably the closest you'll ever get to what SS units like the Dirlewanger Brigade did in real life. It's horrific, almost too realistic, you can feel the heat of the flames. Hollywood wouldn't have the balls to film something like that, although Oliver Stone came close with his own village atrocity scene in Platoon.
There is also Polish movie Warsaw 44 about the uprising. They appear in the movie comitting the infamous Wola massacre, and also showed executing civilians and even some German wounded in the hospital (that's how depraved that bunch were).
When words are forbidden, we cannot learn to defend ourselves against the things they describe.
Elem Klimov, director of the great Soviet film 'Come and See', has admitted the film was autobiographical. Like the film's protagonist, a young boy, he had survived the destruction of a Belarusian village by what (I'm fairly certain) was confirmed as committed by the Dirlewanger Brigade.
I've watched the movie. I can tell this no film you want to have popcorn with. The most horrifying thing about the film is that it is very close to reality.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 Yep.
Even though the German military units are an easy target for the makers of this movie, it´s the most must-watch WWII movie which turns out to be almost unwatchable.
Eventually, it just becomes an excersise in ´losing the power of one´s soul´
Yes a great film and completely stunning end...Probably the best war film ever...
It is interesting that Western audiences see this film as shocking, while on the East it is just another war tale, not much worse than countless others.
Was based on script writer Ales Adamovich's life in Belerus during the war. Klimov was Russian. He was raised in Stalingrad and was there during the battle as a child.
While now impossible to diagnose, Dirlewanger seems like the ultimate example of a high-functioning psychopath, shaped by his enviroment, and then given unlimited power over life and death with horrifying results. Compare this guy to Reinhard Heydrich and the results are fairly similar. Both were fairly "normal" if deeply unpleasant people in peacetime with seemingly healthy upbringings, intelligent, and obviously capable at most things they tried. Both had a propensity for sexual misconduct, although Heydrich's misdeeds were more an offense to his class than the decidely criminal noncery from Dirlewanger; both had a propensity for dishonesty (Heydrich's broken engagement and Dirlewanger's embezzlement); both were charming party-animals (after all, pyschopaths get bored easily because a constant lack of naturally occurring stimulation, and what is better than being the center of attention while drunk for a bored narcissist); both were personally courageous (Dirlewanger was wounded multiple times in both wars leading from the front; Heydrich flew combat missions in ME109's and Heinkels until he was grounded by Himmler after being shot down, hence that classic pic showing him with the Iron Cross rather than War Merit Cross). Then, enviroment kicks in, and we see the divergence. Heydrich served in the Friekorps but was too young to fight in WWI and served in the Reichsmarine and Luftwaffe (mostly "clean" branches of the military), whereas Dirlewanger had 4 solid years of fighting in the mud as an infantryman, as TIK pointed out, with considerable time spent in the East, before fighting some more against communists. The die is cast, and you get one man perfectly suited to waging the paper war of annhilation and a man who is perfectly suited to carrying the actual commands out.
er................. yes . this is human nature. why is it so hard for so many people to understand? it is why all kinds of socialism can never succeed & government only ever makes thing worse
Quite a lot of info there, Exton.
A good evaluation of the scumbag's character. Brave, intelligent, but clearly a sadistic @rs*h&le and mass murdering scumbag.
Interesting point of view.
I wonder in what way horrors or the first world war has damaged his brain which led to even more radicalisation.
It is wellknown that exposure to severe negative stimuli damage the white braincells and turn into grey cells. The more braincells are damaged the more extreme the behavior can get.
IIRC Dirlewanger suffered some kind of head injury during ww1 which definetly didn't help his already fucked up mindset
I had great aunts and grandmother that survived the occupation of belarus. A few times late at night they told stories when drunk that matched all this; while this unit was the worst, the whole of the ss and german army in belarus did more of the same. Most of their family didnt make it. Its a topic, like most of the holocaust by bullets that isnt talked about as much. Thanks for covering these topics, even as it is going to be demonetized.
RIP to all your aunts and grandmother's relatives these psychopaths annihilated. And many, many thanks to @TIK -- Christian Ingrao, Alexandra Ritchie and alike -- for their freaking absolutely needed efforts in reporting these facts. ty man!
Belarus was occupied by Stalin
@@yingyang1008 You don’t know much about the second world war eh?
@@doctoroctopus2620 I know the part where we allied with stalin and helped him enslave half of Europe, including Poland
And then how we pretended it was a victory for freedom
Off you go now, get back to Saving Private Ryan
almost no one could cope with the holocaust by bullets, it destroyed ordinary SS and soldiers, suicide, alcoholism, drugs, refusing to obey orders, massive mental problems, were common consequences.
But the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade was different, their humanity had already disappeared.
But holocaust by bullets went too slow and the damage to own soldiers was too great, so the gas was the perfect instrument, they shouldn't shoot women and children in the head and the dead look completely different, which you could also get others to handle.
Jews and Poles were often "allowed" to arrange the bodies after the disinfection bath.....
Good thing we didn't live through those times, 1 world's problems are a laughing matter.
In Finland, soldiers had a black V on their sleeve, which meant prisoner (vanki). Officers acted mosly like cops. In the beginning a lot of problems like hunger strike, refusals, panic, murder. About 80 people escaped, including the very dangerous Yrjö Leino (minister of the interior).He should have been removed. Although performance improved, losses (diary doesn't specify) occurred after they took over a Russian vodka stock.
However, Mannerheim pardoned them. V looks a bit like an arrow, thus the battalion (Er.P 21) was called "black arrow". They were subjugated to the "Ace" regiment (JR 26) led by colonel Eero Laaksonen, therefore a white ribbon was also used on the left sleeve. Reka Kumsa was conquered in an astonishing 40 minutes. Laaksonen was knighted in November 1942. Medvezhyegorsk was occupied by the Finnish Army from 6 December 1941 to 23 June 1944.
Excellent video on a fascinating character. And your wrap-up on how WW1 and the Weimar period created him is spot-on in my humble opinion.
The best tome on Dirlewanger is French MacClean's, "The Cruel Hunters". It is full of documention regarding this nightmarish unit.
I would highly reccomend it.
The Finns are the Best Winter Soldiers bar none .
Sorry for my bad english. But have the share the story.
My great grandfather was one of the communists recruited into the unit. They had a simple choice: Stay in the death camps or join the enemy. Because they had a working resistance network in the camps (they smuggled information in bread and bedsheets) they decided to test their luck at the front. At the front the communists had to do the most dangerous tasks, like clearing mines under enemy fire. The SS hoped, that they would not change sides because russian units often shot SS instead of taking them prisoner. But because the resistance network was still working, they decided to change sides all at once to maximize their chances and not let the SS have revenge on their comrades who stayed behind. They changed sides one day in small groups but all at once. Not everyone made it and often the soviet soldiers did not believe that the SS had communists. My great grandfather only got out alive, because his friend, with whom he changed sides, could speak russian and was in moscow before the war. He could name a few soviet party officials with whom he had met back then. This and the fact that they gave all the tactical information that they had, saved them. When the soviets knew they could be trusted, they send them to prisoner camps where the most communists joind the National Committee for a Free Germany and prepared for a post war german society.
Ew
This man was an absolute monster. Thank you for this video, history needs to be told despite how hard it is to bear at times
I'm sorry to shatter your world, but this man was a human being after all. This and the fact that it really happened is what makes the story so horrifying.
Dirlewanger was actually just a man, in fact more gifted man than many. That is what makes his story important for all of us.
Hardcore members of the SS were appalled and disgusted by the actions of Dirlewanger's group, and that says a lot!
No, he was not an "absolute monster", that is the point of the video also.
The Dirlewanger double grenade symbol is very popular with the Azov battalions in the Ukraine.
The film "Come and See" shows what kind of men these people were. You know its bad when other Heer or Waffen-SS officer's complain about atrocities commited by this band of thugs.
Actually, they did not complain about atrocities. They complained because it was chaotic and medieval. Dead bodies lying on the streets, burning and pillaging, instead of neat rows of burial holes and "stock" packaged into them ;)
Mate, they did a lot worse than in that movie believe me, the stories of what they did...
There was also another group that worked with them in Belarus. They where an all Russian Waffen-SS division led by psychopath Boris Kaminski. They where just as bad and both would be involved in Warsaw. Kaminski was eventual killed by the SS as his methods became even too drastic for Himmler. Officially, he was killed by Russian bombs but he was actually shot.
@@marccruKaminski, i remember seeing that name before. If you ever visit Warsaw, there is a museum on the uprising. Its some experience, there are some ruins left of the Ghetto still in Warsaw along with some remnants of the the famous wall, all with battle damage on it. Also could not recommend Blood lands enough that book mentions alot of names like you said that were (Killers) "experts" in Bandenbekämpfung.
@@cpj93070 being one of the most brutal movies I've ever seen, that's saying a lot
“And the SS were NOT nice people” 😂😂
There’s that TIK we all love.
Here, here!
We should have shot every one of them
My grandfather was SS, he was fairly nice
Meanies.
"The worst" of the SS is really quite an accomplishment.
It's depressing that it became a contest on who could be worse in the fucking SS of all things.
"She told me she was 18" that old chestnut
It’s very sad that you have to “tip toe” around some persons feelings and preferences just because they hold the levers of power. History is important because if we don’t learn from the mistakes of our ancestors we can never learn to correct them when they happen again in the future.
Keep going TIK! The world needs more people like you in it.
An American philosopher by the name of George Santayana once said: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Does this censorship also affect English-language coverage of the current war? Russian-language and Ukrainian-language channels don't seem to be restricted in any way, certainly no cap on r-words.
I think that even if there are pieces of historical facts that cannot be used for "learning from mistakes" and are still uncomfortable to some people they should still be available to be known by those who want to know. Historical information, and even more in the way that it is presented here, is scientific information.
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@@jmi5969 yes it indeed dose, which is why news coverage of the events are currently so polarizing depending on what outlets your getting your news from, at least here the US .
And to think the Japanese were like this on an absolutely MASSIVE scale…
@Alexis Z. add the British colonial forces in India.
Pol Pot, Mao Zadong, Joseph Stalin hell even Pablo Escobar evil isn't something that belongs just to Germany in WW2
@@keepthinking9402 Far too true the list of names that developed such forces who committed these crimes against humanity would be unfortunately far to long.
@@keepthinking9402 How Pablo Escobar fits into the list? He gave people the option to be corrupted by himself or be killed.
Individually scaled only one that comes close I can think of was Lavrentiy Beria
"Blood Lands" was one of the toughest reads. Excellent book, but I had to put it down after a while, take a break, then come back to it. Heartily recommend for anyone who wants to read about that chapter of the war.
I thoroughly enjoyed it, I read the whole thing in a couple days the first time. Not a "happy read" obviously but fascinating. I had heard of such atrocious things plenty of times, but never read a book before where details were spelled out like that. Very dark and somewhat shocking, but very interesting. I haven't read iris chang's nanking book but I heard it is similarly terrible and interesting at the same time
Terrific book and goes some way to explain the continuing deep-seated hatred and mistrust in that area of Europe.
Sounds like “The Rape Of Nanking” by the late Iris Chang. I’d heard of this, but this was an excruciatingly detailed account of an absolute horror. Ironically, the atrocious behavior of the Japanese army was mitigated by the actions of a Nazi official stationed in the city at the time…
"The Back March" was a tuff read for me also, detailing the interrogation of 3 Soviet POW's stripped naked in the snow and a flame thrower used on them 1 by 1 until the last man confessed. But in today's World the Russian's are doing the same in Ukraine.
My grandfathers was murdered by them together with personnel and patients of the Wolski Hospital. I saved my mother who, most likely, will be with her father at the hospital, but knowing that Upraising is about to start father sent mom with newborn me out of the city. My grandmother and one of the uncles were both injured and not trusting Germans remained hiding in the abandoned and patrolled city after the Upraising collapsed. Uncle was crippled. Father on the other hand, being a professional soldier, came out decorated and unharmed .
As a result of the Upraising many of my friends grow up without fathers, it was quite common to see crippled people . Actually the were seats on the buses and tramways designated for "injured during the war" (dla inwalidow wojennych).
Story of my family was pretty ordinary in Warsaw, rather fortunate loosing only one. I was given name after my parents favored cousin, who was in the underground unit commanded by my father and who was tortured to death by Germans. Before the war he was studying in Berlin and had a German girlfriend who several times visited him during the occupation of Poland.
My childhood "playground" was Powazki Cementery, it was a short walk from Zoliborz and we were there with mom several times a week cleaning family graves and ones in need of attention (there was also another reason for it, but I did not know about it at the time). There were number of women (of my moms' age) , always in blac]k, who were there every day visiting graves of their sons and husbands killed in Uprising.
My moms best friend was crippled and maimed so severely that she couldn't be a pediatrician she was trained (she will scare children by her looks) and became a pharmacist. She married during the Uprising only to have her new husband killed few days after the wedding.
Thank you for sharing your story. It means a great deal to us all.
I am 35 years old, I am from Poland, I live here all my life. All my friends that know anything about 2WW know about Dirlewanger Brigade and its actions in Warsaw Uprising for example. This things we learn in schools (good schools). For examlple book about Jurgen Stroop (Conversations with an Executioner) is mandatory lecture in school here. Ethics delivered from hard history should make conscious observer of current times.
I actually did a high presentation on this particular brigade and when researching them it’s pretty terrifying what these men did.
Good job. Whats the name of the research?
That’s sounds like fun! Although sparking up before presenting such a heavy topic would stress me out
@@christopherandersson2496 Atrocities and war crimes of the Waffen SS
"And the SS were NOT nice people . . ."
Thank you RUclips for enforcing such a hilarious understatement.
I dare say the SS were downright unpleasant.
@@imyourdaddy5822 My neighbor was a pleasant old man fought in the 2nd SS Das Reich from 1943 to 1945. He died way back int he early 2000's but was very open bout his war time service.
@@littlejimmy8744
People don't want to hear that.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 People can be pleasant to some and unpleasant to others.
@@imyourdaddy5822 A lot of the SS were conscripted and not just volunteers. As Germany had more need for manpower, anyone classed as ethnically German from outside the Reich was conscripted into the SS both Allgemeine and Waffen SS units. Many of them hardly spoke German.
They weren't shaped into monsters. They were allowed to be monsters, even encouraged to be monsters, but their evil is theirs and I pray hell is real for it is the only place suitable for them.
Were they already monsters, just being allowed to show their true colours for the first time?
Could you be a decent person in any war and under any repression? And if no, how does your environment not shape a person? That we are shaped does not diminish personal responsibility, but does provide us with ways to explain some of the different choices that are made
@Fabian Kirchgessner being radicalised (as a nazi) explains wanting to distance yourself from so-called subhumans and in some cases wanting to murder them. It does in no way explain the wanton sadism of the Dirlewanger brigade.
Most people would also agree rabbits or dogs are lesser beings than people, yet would be appalled if one abuses them without cause or reason
@Fabian Kirchgessner Now you are talking about abuse while you were first going on about radicalization. Be precise, what point are you trying to make?
Also, it is very important to remember that not all people who are abused at one point inflict something on others. This kind of generalizations are extremely stigmatizing and harmful to already vulnerable (and potentially dangerous) people.
@Fabian Kirchgessner This equating of radicalization and cruelty caused by abuse really muddies the waters. For definition: Radicalism is subscribing to a belief (or set of believes) that is far removed from the norm of society or the general understanding of humanity. Not al radicals are violent, but all believe what they do is necessary. For example, most senior nazis were from the upper crust of society, never harmed by social inequality and not notably from dysfunctional families, while being named among the most radical people in history. A contrary example would be Frederick Douglas, who suffered terribly in his early life, but became a beacon of civilized humanity, just like the vast majority of the freed slaves did not become 'radicalized' in a significant way. All in all, I would be with you in saying abuse contributes to radicalization (and would even offer the tolerance of cruelty in radical groups as an explanation) but I would never name any individual reasons as the 'main reason' for radical ideology.
Second point of definition: The 'fact' about mental illness not being a cause in a lot of cruelty is neither verifiable nor falsifiable if you do not define mental illness. And what exactly constitutes a mental illness is constantly changing since psychology became a science. You would likely become a legend in that field if you can define this in a way that does not revert back to the subjective judgement of the deed of a person.
My great grandfather was in the SS as well, when one SS Obergruppenführer of That unit ordered him to take a bunch of Romanians in poor health (most of them Sinti and Roma) and build a better road through the Romanian mountains he knew it was a mission to kill those poor guys he refused, after being threatened with a trail and execution on accounts of "Vaterlandsverrat" he got into a brawl with that guy because he not only disobeyed the order but he also punched the guy nearly to death. Got him into trouble anyway but it got those poor bastards time to escape. He got hanged at the end but it still takes guts for that. That's the stuff I honor him for, but like I said still a member of the SS
So you put your grandfather down to make everyone feel good when you tell your story? Coward..
The most terrifying thing about most of these monsters is that most of them were ordinary people like you or me... until they weren't.
We live in an age where words are violence and people use actual violence to harm those with said words. We’re closer than ever than living in a time were ordinary people commit terrible crimes.
No. Dirlewangers lot were all psycopaths
I remember someone recommending the movie "come and see" and when looking into the movie I found these monsters and found some old interviews from Belarusian survivors. It gave me nightmares.
One of the most underrated films about...and can be viewed on youtube.
Yeah, Finnish TV showed it around 1988. Hounting movie..
I was a medic in the infantry, not squeamish in the least. That movie messed with my sleep as well.
It was a movie
@@yingyang1008 the survivor interviews weren't
Even many hardcore SS members despised Dirlewanger and this is saying something.
I don't know about the "hardcore members"...
There is a hierarchy of repute among all criminals- and Dirlewanger was a convicted n0nce.
@@u.h.forum. Heydrich and Himmler were well-known enemies of his
@@chrismc410 he was promoted to oberfuhrer after he murdered 30 thousand people in Warsaw. If Himmler really didn't like him that much he would have smited the promotion
The Dirlewanger Brigade was responsible for some of the most unspeakable atrocities committed during World War II (1939-1945). Thank you for covering this unit on your channel, as their despicable acts should be well known across the world. If you haven't already, I would be interested in you making a video about the Warsaw Uprising (1944). Great video as always.
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After much Study, i have found. The Holocaust was much worse than the records that exist show. The details, when you discover them, are so horrific it beggars belief. To this day, I have been so deeply disturbed by what I learned, I can no longer look at the subject in detail. I actually feel physically sick and quite unable to absorb it any further. The gruesomenss and needlessness still perturbs me deeply. I am sad to say, it is nessarsary to continue to teach people the truth of what happened. Lest we forget.
You want TRUTH ? watch the Hellstorm Documentary and The Greatest Story Ever Told and Europeas last stand .
@@jbelcher6473neo nazi propaganda
this was not just about the Holocaust, Jews were not the only victims. This unit mainly killed Poles in Warsaw, as well as Bialorusians and other Slavs.
As insane as Dirlewanger's Brigade was, that was normal behavior in the Imperial Japanese Army in WW2.
Discussing these things are extremely important, despite the rational distaste towards even imagining just a few the crimes that had happened. It is criminal to ignore these atrocities, though, because to ignore is to forget, and the more possible that these things - if not repeat - rhyme.
A local example here, in Indonesia, is the irony of local wehraboos and imperialjapanoboos worshipping both regimes, when the former would have classified Indonesians as untermensch whilst the latter had enslaved or murdered (or worse) millions of Indonesians during the war.
But now we have Aidar, Kraaken, Azov etc etc.....
"- if not repeat - rhyme"
dont worry , we ( the humanity ) WILL repeat ALL of that and we will make this mans exploits look like childplay.
never underestimate humanities ability to commit utter atrocities.
A lot of people don't understand the scale and depths of the evil that was defeated in 1945. It's the sort of thing that happens when the rules of society break down or are subverted as a result of economic chaos. Certain current leaders need to consider the consequences of kicking the ants nest.
I have an uncle who went awol from the dutch military and joined the Indonesians. Then he got to fight the Japanese. He used to have a pet monkey who acted as a sentry.
@@bennichols561 this is speculation on my part , but i would guess that pet monkey was more important to him than any human.
War is hell but this “brigade’s” atrocities are difficult to come to words of the pure evil of these individuals.
The methods sound exactly like what the Russians did to the Circassians in the 1800s
@@JohnnySack16 if what they did wasn’t bad to you what would qualify as something bad?
@@overdose8329 It's something in only learned about because i met someone online who is Circassian who told me about that. Before that i did not even know what a Circassian was.
@@DontKnow-hr5my yeah I don’t think it’s taught in schools anywhere. Maybe they’d teach it in Turkey because almost all the survivors went to the Ottoman Empire
@@JohnnySack16
Keep laughing.
Hi TIK.Glad to hear you talking about Christian INGRAO. He's one of my favorite french historian. Don't know if his conference are availlable in english, but they are really brillant. Greetings from FRANCE and thanks a lot for your job
There are people like him walking on earth today.
Obviously, there are many and all they need is to be given some authority over others for their true nature to be displayed
Serial Killers will always be around as long as the mankind is on earth
I think that he wasn't so much a man of his time, but was a man who'd had all responsibilities for his actions removed. You see the same kind of behavior among Japanese soldiers all over the Greater East Asia Coprosperity Sphere, especially against prisoners who were regarded as the lowest of nonhumans. They'd slipped the limits their society pushed on them, and many displayed the same studied cruelties. This is the Ring of Gyges problem, once all consequences are removed does someone remain a moral person. Dirlewanger does not.
im not going to lie the idea of getting hunters who will be damn good shots in their own right was a good idea actually. I believe Simo showed how that could turn out
In the American War of Independence the German States (Hesse for example) raised units of Jaegers (rifle armed skirmishers) from gamekeepers and poachers to serve in North America as mercenaries..
These were not hunters, these were simply poachers. As for Simo, look at his face :D
@@aleksazunjic9672 Lot's of soldiers get shot and come out way worse,
@@aleksazunjic9672 look at his kill count
@@harrycallahan5018 It is debatable as there is no independent confirmation.
aaannnnnnddddd demonetized. love your work TIK, literally the premiere history channel on this dumpsterfire.
I didn't even bother to monetize the video. I just know RUclips wouldn't be happy with this so why bother. If they want to lose money being woke, so be it
@@TheImperatorKnight Sorry, haven't watched a vid yet, maybe You adressed it, but... Demonetized for teaching about who Dirlewanger was?
@@TheImperatorKnight I think 'woke' has little to do with it, other than YT, like so many other media, trying to pander to being 'non controversial'. They are not political. They are strictly money driven. Sadly, their policy regarding this sort of content (barely allowing it, but at the same time trying to bury it) seems to yield good results for them. I don't expect them to become actually woke and allowing content that is aimed at serious discussion of genuinely controversial content or in your case, showing what horrible things really happened, upsetting their sponsors.
@@oumajgad6805 history that isn't sanitised to protect the feelings of Ill adjusted individuals is Haram on this platform. Only party approved information (factually accuracy not a consideration) is allowed access to advertising dollars
Would other platforms be an option say rumble odysee etc for such programs if youtube are playing they games it gives people a chance to give a tip for example at rumble if they so wish ?
Shocking and deeply disturbing.
Thanks for the effort!
A small sidenote: The German Wikipedia states (referring to multiple sources) that a unit of sentenced poachers and criminals was actually the brainchild of Gottlob Berger (he saw a similar method of king Heinrich I. in the 10th century as his model) who then convinced Heinrich Himmler of it. Hitler lastly added his demands of Bavarian and Austrian poachers to make up the unit.
Since YT is trying to ban your retelling of history, you deserve my SUB.
Something you forgot, there's a small scar above his right eye, (1:52) which is a shrapnel wound he got in ww1.
Which apparently caused him brain damage, which could be a possibility for his massive personality change.
He was also shot in the head fighting Communist in Sangerhausen. By wars end his total wound tally was 14.
A TBI can cause disastrous consequences
Guys who served with the Dirlewanger Brigade are one group I could 100% support the Western Allies turning over to the Soviets....
In many cases this is exactly what happened. Lots of nazi collaborators, lackeys and local "opportunists" fled to western allied held territory as the war neared its end but were in many cases "repatriated". Though in all honesty some of these might have been spared by the western allies if they had something to "bargain" with, more specifically some important skill or knowledge. Werner von Braun and other nazi scientists got pardoned and were transported to the USA. But most of the nazi collaborators from European countries who had openly/willingly helped the nazis were duly sent back to their countries knowing they'd either get executed for treason or thrown in isolated prisons.
Though it must also be said that the Catholic Church *rat lines* (which this guy is yet to mention for some reason...) actually helped smuggle out a lot of fascist collaborators and wanted war criminals out of Europe and to South America.
The crimes of the SS are always interesting to explore, and it’s sad that RUclips wants to stop the spread of this valuable information.
Great video as always 👏👏
Why would you tube want to stop the spread of bad publicity about Nazis, fascists, supremacists, SS admirers etc?
@@daviddoran3673 Exactly!
Oscar Dirlewanger was wounded 6 times in ww1, 3 times in Spain and something stupid like 11 times in ww2, so being "courageous" and "leading from the front" do fit.
hmmm , that guy had a lot of HP !
Not often enough apparently.
As a Turk, i cannot understand why that much hate on Polish people from Germans and Soviets... They saved Wien against the Ottoman Empire occupation of entire Europe and they deserve this? 🤦♂️
Poland is just one gigantic flat tank exercising ground of a country.
the discription of nazism as a "racial socialism" makes a ton of sense, i appreciate your bringing this term up
Excellent, as always, TIK! It is unfortunate that You Tube has such as aversion to presenting the truth that you have to jump through so many hoops.
Worst?
More like most vile and evil.
Check out Chinese history. The Yangzhou Massacre in May of 1645 during the invasion of the Ming Dynasty by the Manchu Bannermen is beyond anything I've ever heard or read. There are witness accounts of it. The Manchu commander ordered his troops to not sheath their swords for 10 days because conquered Yangzhou had refused to surrender and put up a fight. 'The streets are full of abandoned babies, trampled to death by horses' hooves or by human feet.' The monks who were ordered to bury the dead claimed 800,000, though this may not include those tossed into wells, consumed in burnt buildings, or who escaped but later succumbed to their wounds or disease. Modern historians question the number 800,000, but no one disputes it occured and that it was massive and ghastly. It even includes incidents I've never conceived of, such a mothers of Ming Dynasty soldiers killing themselves before Yangzhou fell so that their sons wouldn't worry about them and neglect their duties.
@@gagamba9198 Chinese history is full of utterly insane incidents such as these.
@@Ingaldre Indeed. China takes things to whole other levels.
In 2020 I participated in the "Every Name Counts" project, indexing and transcribing prisoner cards from the Nazi concentration camps (from both before and after the war started). I came across about a dozen that mentioned the prisoner had been transferred to Dirlewanger's unit.
Poor bastards
the scariest thing is that we are still (under certain circumstanses) able to do similar attrocities today.. it all depends on influence and acceptance.....
Pure evil... Sickening. But thanks for sharing TIK. Lest we forget...
Make no mistake. This kind of criminals have *NOT* been erradicated.
They are STILL in government positions.
The methods have changed, the criminal intent is the same.
I feel fear when I try to talk to people about how bad things can get if we don't stop messing with the basic structure of society... ... For them the worst imaginable is a bit more inflation or their favorite restaurant closing, people don't understand the bubble that a healthy culture and a sane society gives them OR what happens when you move those layers of protection.
Actually, too much protection tends to turn into its opposite : total chaos.
elmaxidelsur...I try as well but people in the West have normalcy bias, thinking that such atrocities could never happen where they live. Others just don't want to think about it. This is how history repeats.
Yeah, to echo Aleksa there's a large portion of the population who beleive that bubble is the specific reason for atrocities. You have to keep in mind, for example, that the Weimar era was almost as "socially progressive" as the modern day. There is an element of chaos and violence intrinsic to people, but if you suppress its manifestation while creating conditions that provoke it (such as social engineering with a heavily repressive authoritarian state, like we have now or like Germany had in the Weimar) you make it so when the bubble inevitably bursts the outcome is unimaginable atrocities.
Exactly. Same as no one appreciates basic needs eg energy, oil until it costs a lot. They think renewables and rainbows can power they energy hungry lives.
Consider the possible reaction pent up in regards to the social engineering and financial crime of the 20th century to now if those offended by it get the chance to kick ass. It could make the punitive and revolutionary excesses of the past pale into insignificance and be done in the name of justice and racial preservation.
I think that the Russian drama, "Come and See" was based on the atrocities committed by the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade. Near the end, there's a scene depicting Belorussian villagers being forced into a barn...
One of the most disturbing scenes in any war movie.
Translation: "I support Bolshie Russia and Stalin. I just won't admit it"
@@BlackpilledBuddha6476 Wasn't your Teutonic hero Dirlewanger awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds? /s
@@BlackpilledBuddha6476 You don't have to live your life like this.
@@USSTOLEDOSSN769 Russia is invading another country again in 2022, it's committed acts of brutality that not even the Germans could compete with, conquered most of Eastern Europe, ruled with an iron fist, had a dictator who was more brutal than Hitler, slaughtered its entire ruling class, had more concentration camps than Germany, successfully concealed war crimes etc.
And you expect me to sympathise with the Bolshie Russians because of a single movie depicting a Belarusian boy and the German invasion. Come on bro
I first came across this unit in a book about the SS that my dad gave me. They merited a few pages, but even those made the Allgemeine SS look almost kind and considerate
I am reading The Gulag Archipelago, just been through the chapter on "interrogation" techniques.
I will wait a few days or maybe weeks before watching this video.
Thanks for the warning!
As a warsaw citizen i would have loved to do exactly what those polish guards did to him
@Alexis Z. to kill evil is not evil. To enjoy torturing a heinous person like Dirlewanger is not evil. You likely don’t know what the SS did, and had in plan if they won. Millions of Jews, Roma, Slavs (generally all people in the USSR who weren’t white), homosexuals, disabled, black people, communists, socialists, etc etc, would’ve been brutally killed. The nazis deserved every bit of ruthlessness done to them, and then some.
@Alexis Z. that doesnt even come close
@Alexis Z. Are you actually serious ?
@Alexis Z. i dont care if beating the shit out of a guy directly responsible for the killing of multiple of my relatives who were killed in the uprising as well as destruction of most of this once beautyfull city is somehow moraly evil if so so be it id still do it
@@matthewwhitton5720 I think he is. And he’s right.
"The SS were not nice people"
TIK bringing the heat...
Are you saying that SS doesn't stand for Social Sweethearts? :P
Good to see you again. I did order a copy of "Hitler's National Socialism." by Zitelman. I should be getting it this week.
Oh good! I checked Amazon the other day to see the reviews on it, and a few people have given it a good review. Just checked now and one said:
"I saw this book mentioned in a YT post and decided to check it out. After researching several things the book mentions that were not taught in any of the history classes I attended and discovering the book was correct I admit I was misinformed prior to reading this."
I don't know if the guy was referring to me or another RUclipsr, but I think the review speaks volumes.
@@TheImperatorKnight Good. It will be an excellent addition to my library.
Yeah... That was hard to listen to. As a Belarusian myself I can confirm that's what I heard from my older survived relatives in rural areas.
I pray RUclips changes it ways and stops shadowbaning historical events borderline or not
Any time someone says "the Western Allies were just as bad," they should have to watch this.
The western Allies made some mistakes that seriously hindered their goals like the bombing of certain civilian cities to force people into surrender. Which had the opposite effect, worked into Goebbels Propaganda and pushed the people closer to the Party. And they had some really fucked up things planned aswell (Look up Operation Vegetarian, that stuff was ready to go, they planned on actually doing that and unleash an Anthrax epidemic on Germany, it was all prepared, only DD-Day being successful prevented that) but the Soviets were really just as bad as these SS Units, they raped and murdered their way through every country they "liberated" in the most degenerate manner.
@@DontKnow-hr5my Absolute bs. The Soviets were not even close to Germans in doing atrocities. TIK himself has multiple videos debunking that myth, you wehraboo
@@dragonstormdipro1013 It's not a myth, i take it you don't live in Germany and have grandparents telling the stories they had to go through as children, eh? And it is well documented and not even just in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia they were many things but Liberators, my ass.
without him
Germanwere still worst in entire war
@@DontKnow-hr5my I'm Polish and my Polish ancestors didn't have any stories of being mistreated by Soviet troops.
On the other hand, my grandma has witnessed the Germans executing men out in public with submachine guns. Another relative of mine lived near Warsaw and he saw the raging fires happening as Germans were deliberately burning and razing the city to the ground, killing everyone inside.
So no. I wouldn't say that the Soviets were "just as bad".
A trigger warning? On a TIK video???
It's more likely than you think
What is disturbing is that "ordinary" people can turn into "monsters". The right (or wrong ) conditions, events, opportunities, and any one of us could possibly become one.
My great grand uncle served in this unit for 2 months as a truck driver
he got hit in a ambush and sent to France to recover from two bullet wounds to the legs - his crime while serving in the 5th SS - he drank too much. So he had to serve in this unit - he recovered in 44 in time to be assigned to the 12th to fight in the battle of the Bulge- he was captured 1 month later - from another wound - was he a criminal? He never mentioned about killing Jews - he was cleared on any charges after the war and lived in Canada until his death in 2000
Oskar Dirlewanger looks extremely similar to Neville Chamberlain
There was an entire Azerbaijani battalion in the Dirlewanger brigade? That sounds like a significant proportion for a small soviet country not near to the front lines.
Not certain. But I believe these were POW turncoats. Germans actually had A LOT of them. Soviet conscripts from all over the Soviet Union, captured in the large "pockets" by encirclement, and becoming POW's. Many non Russian repressed minorities were quickly willing to join the germans , if just to not starve to death as was happening in the POW camps on the Eastern front.
One more thought or observation regarding the psychology of killing. I am a hunter and love animals and nature, but as hunter have killed animals. In my personal experience hunting has hardened my soul and after the first kill of a deer, I had the impression it flipped a switch. I read many serial killers “work their way up” from animals to humans. I wonder watching this video if the killing and torturing of civilians by the Dirlewanger men build up in a shorter or longer time in a similar fashion and I assume many men in Dirlewanger had their switches flipped. I am curious if other hunters that read this know what I mean and if they are also not surprised poachers were recruited.
They evolved from serial killers to serial mass murderers (tyrant) when there's very little resistance and encouragement to do so . I suspect an ancient trait is activated and encouraged in very violent environments . It usually starts with a brutal alcoholic home despot . See early home life of Stalin and Hitler . See serial killers Charles Manson , Ed Kemper and mass murderer Richard Speck .
Do not forget that they were also soldiers so they already took plenty of lives on the battlefield. This means that killing was already normalized for them. Back then you didnt use missiles and deones to kill from afar. You stormed the enemy position and looked them in the eyes when you kill them. This has to have some effect on people.
I think you should also take in account your feeling when doing it. As in, do you go for a quick kill? Or do you enjoy the animal having pain? Do you enjoy the kill itself? Not so much the fact you achieved something, rather, you enjoy that you took a life. Serial killers do it more for the wrong reasons. For them killing is more a power trip; becoming like God and playing judge, jury and executioner. In general however: corruption is done with small steps. Small acts of evil help you along the road of damnation.
@@unrealassasination you nailed it. Its the power. People who always feel they are looked down or simply have inferiority complex may turn very vicous if given power
@@SIGNOR-G These units were not soldiers by most WW2 standards. Most probably killed or witness the killing of a dozen unarmed and helpless civilians before they faced an armed partisan let alone a battle-hardened Red Army soldier. Their combat record in 1944-1945 shows they knew little about modern warfare and could only have survived because they stayed behind the frontlines. Otherwise they had to learn to adapt or be wiped out.
I just discovered your channel. You're still not shadowbanned with this video, it seems.
As a German, I must laud your care and craft in making a documentary where there is no ambiguity over what kind of ideas, drives, and brutally inhumane energies were and are at play in fascist and NS minds.
It's very effective the clear way you tell it, neutral and composed in tone and emotion, as the subject matter and facts really speak for themselves.
Very well done Naration. WW2 history has always been captivating to me. But this guy and others are incomprehensible. The mindset of these men? Pure evil .
Describing these people as "not very nice" is certainly an understated description.
I see the Ukrainian Azov Battalion has the same issues as the Dirlewanger Brigade................They cannot make up their mind whether they are a battalion or a regiment.
We can never let these types of dispicable atrocities befall our fellow human beings ever again be on this scale. I am not Russian, I am not Belarussian, but these people are humans and that makes them my people. Learning what was done to these people truly fills me with rage. Thank you TIK as always for bringing the truth of what happened forward in such a coherent format, the video is High quality as always.
TIK is one of the gems of the Internet / History, alongside Mark Felton and Indy Neidell.
You have assumed a role that you can never step down from, you must continue to fuel our History desires until the end of your days, thank you for your life-long commitment to fueling the hungry fires of the Internet.
Cheers TIK
Satan handed Oskar Dirlewanger a box of matches and some sulfur and told him to make his own hell because even he was offended by his presence and he would not have him in hell.
Parties hosted by the Man himself, good ol' Dirlewanger (whenever he had time away from his work), must have been pretty spectacular.
Thanks for making this video and making people aware of his horrific crimes. I am glad to see you have added a bit more detail to his demise than what's on the internet!
The guards at the prison he was held beat the absolute shit out of him multiple times per day for days until he died of a "heart attack". He would scream all night and had open, running wounds all over from the beatings. I am glad he got a taste of his own medicine even though he deserved much worse. Sickening.
There is a Bealurussian film called Come and See.
It's through the eyes of a boy around the 1hour 30 minutes area it gives the best depiction of the insanity of a village clearance you'll ever see.
The film is one of the best of this element of WW2 and worth the subtitles.
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I have the book on the Dirlewanger brigade. Haven't read it yet but I'm thinking I'm going to read it next. Nice video. Amazing how cruel humans can absolutely be towards other humans.
I worked together with one of Mr Dirlewanger's family member. He had different family name but the brother still goes under the name Dirlewanger. Both great guys with profession & success. He only talked about this one time as I recognized the name and asked about it.
What did they tell you?
@@harukrentz435 just talked with one of them & he didn't tell much. Was a bit weirdo guy but very good & important part of a big company. He had some very wild ideas but cannot go into that here & more. That's all
TIK, I've read Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Very few things about WWII can genuinely disgust me at this point.
Great book and I used it in the video. It's terrifying what humans can do to other humans.
Videos like this make me absolutely sick to my stomach. I wish that more people would study history and learn why their rights must be upheld and defended. Why war sometimes is necessary. That the evil within ordinary people can grow to the extremes of barbarism. Why every household should be ready to fight.
Some of this is going on right now in Ukraine.
You may want to ask your Western governments to stop stirring up neo nazis in Ukraine. Azov, the Right Sector and the cannonization of Bandera.
Good news TIK. I got a notification of this video, and I am not of a sensitive nature.
Liked & Commented.
Service Guarantees Citizenship.
Fantastic! Given the nature of the video I'm surprised you got the notification to be honest
@@TheImperatorKnight Finished the video. I wish I could give my honest opinion about the subject. But I don't want to get flagged, you & I don't trust the algraphic gods of RUclips.
Suffice to say. Well done. Glad I got a notification about it. And I hope you are okay after doing the reading & work for this video.
See you in the next one. o7
Over 100,000 Chinese were saved by the Lutheran community and the German Embassy in Nanking during the Japanese destruction...
There is no punishment harsh enough in this life or the next.
Dammit Tik you're just knocking it out of the park with your recent videos, absolutely fantastic.
People are highly recommended to watch the movie, "Come and See". The movie shows a small sample of the brutality and horrors that the Oskar Dirlewanger Brigade inflicted on the people of belarussia.
You may want to ask your Western governments to stop stirring up neo nazis in Ukraine. Azov, the Right Sector and the cannonization of Bandera.
A difficult subject, given today's environment. A necessary one if things are not to repeat.
Thank you TIK. I hope we still have enough people that learn second hand, so first hand experiences are not had.
Well I first heard of him, and his comrade in arms Kaminski, through Sven Hassel. Liberal description of them in Reign of Hell. Fast forward and after reading Fatherland, by Robert Harris Odilo Globocnik is mentioned. Turns out he was not only a real person but he was also Dirlewanger’s nemesis, constantly petitioning for him and his unit to be disciplined. Les Dawson’s mother-in-law joke ‘expelled from the SS for brutality’ in actual physical form.
Hassel is fiction though
Oh indeed his work is fiction, and there was an allegation that photos he claimed were of him in WW2 were fake but:
1. Hassel was very popular back in the 1970’s.
2. His books acknowledged that war was nasty and unpleasant, and the savagery encountered, especially on the Russian Front.
3. This in stark contrast to us still getting spoon fed with Hogan’s Heroes, and sundry stuff-upper-lip characters in tv programmes, and in most of the comics, we had ‘Braddock VC’, Union Jack Jackson...all very wholesome tripe.
@@randyborstol2491yes but he discussed non fictional events. And he was scathing about dirlewanger in particular.
@@sugarnads Thanks for the reply
Clearly calling him deeply flawed is an understatement, but by the standards of his comrades as a commander he displayed a willingness to put himself in harms way, he was wounded a dozen times.
For he's a jolly good fellow and so say all of us XD
He had a typical SS mentality in the East. They considered themselves as ancient warlords that had loyalty only to their comrades, but could do anything they desired with conquered lands and people.
In some ways, he's an enigma. Educated, intelligent, yet also cruel and sadistic. To a rational person, his conduct makes no sense. It's almost as if there were two personalities struggling for control between the wars, and the bad one won.
@@Ulani101 Nah. To ratinal person his conduct makes perfect sense. Scum like these only show their real sides when noone can punish them. In their family homes, places where they hold authority and overwhelmingly in war. I'm quite sure that there were plenty of people that he hurt before the war, especially considering that he has being imprisoned for rape during this time, so by no standard he head any morality left on him. It's only that in war he could do whatever he wished and not be punished for acting like a God to his surroundings. There's plenty of people like that in modern world, seemingly perfect from outside and deeply deranged in the places they hold authority. All of those respected people that are later found out to terrorize their families, during war, they would all be Dirlewangers in their own rights.
These videos are so hard to watch when you have your own children.
On another note, War in Ukraine shows that humans are still the same 80 years later...
Why would people expect humans to be different?
especially on the azov side. And I am not even trying to blame Ukrainians for them .
All these horrible people where once ordinary folks , it's truly terrifing what war can do to people
a psychologist's opinion on dirlewanger would be very interesting
I am a history buff, a older Black- American guy, that being said i buy and research books on various history subjects, and thank you for sharing this. oh yeah nice collections of books you have too.
I don't know if it's becuase I'm a Pole, or because I've been in Warsaw Uprising Museum recently (if You will ever be in Warsaw - GO THERE!) or maybe simply because I am a human being... But I am fucking furious to learn that YT shadowbans and demonetizes videos like this. Maybe it is naive of me, I don't know, but videos like this should be actively promoted! It's not like anyone is saying that Nazis, SS etc. were the good guys here. What is the reason for such regulations? Especially now when being called a nazi is easier than ever. Maybe people should learn what true nazi is and what it isn't?
As a german iam right there with you.
The sad thing is, no company wants to run adds on such "disturbing" videos, so YT dosent care much about them in the first place.
So they are left with such Videos showing or talking about "problematic" stuff, which would need them to review these videos by humans because bots cant decide if the content is against their rules or not.
And that all cost time and money, so thats why they just shadow ban them, so only a few will see them.
Problem solved and yeah it sucks hard because many of the most important topics fall into such categories.
The shadowban makes more sense when you consider that progressives have a concept called dogwhistling. It is essentially thier name for doublespeak. They beleive that videos about German wartime activities, even if superficially critical of them, can have an underlying pro-violence propagandist effect, which is why they suppress them.
To be frank I don't know how this is supposed to work, as it seems like an insane concept to me. The few instances where I have had them explain their reasoning fully are obscene.
You may want to ask your Western governments to stop stirring up neo nazis in Ukraine. Azov, the Right Sector and the cannonization of Bandera.
The Warsaw Uprising museum was the most eye opening experience for me and started my current obsession of history, specifically WW2. Unfortunately we're not taught enough here in Britain about the suffering the slavic countries especially Poland endured despite the fact it was a Polish brigade that played an essential part in the battle of Britain
@@adamw7501 The suffering of germans during the time of the NSDAP isnt even taught here in germany. Tiergartenstraße 4, and many other things. Millions of germans died because they were classified as enemies of the state. Simple politcial Opposition, people that didnt cooperate, homosexuals, and lots of other german minorities. The Brother of my grandmother was in a KZ, and he died there. (We were and are pure germans, yet they received this treatment, it wasnt about ethnicitiy when you didnt cooperate)
Of course this does not change the fact that the vast majority of germans cooperated, hell, were even happy and eager to do so. Still, i believe we should have been taught about how this regime wasnt really pro german or something like that, it was a simple barbaric totalitarian state that murdered everyone considered an enemy of the state, and a lot of groups and ideologies were a part of that.
Awesome, recently i was wondering about the penal battalions. Would be great to have a video on the soviet penal battalion the "Shtrafbat" and how useful/efficient they were or in which conditions they were used. Thank you for this video !
When my grandfather was sent to the eastern front, my grandmother joined his mother, my great-grandmother in the family home on the outskirts of Berlin. It was here that they lived through the end of the way.
The local Gauleiter was stationed in the village. When all was lost, the Gauleiter ordered his last loyal SS to destroy the Russian tanks to enter the village, got into his Storch and was gone.
Like so many villages, everyone waved the white flags; mostly the Russians just drove through. The first tank entered the village, and the SS troops destroyed the tanks.
The Russians sealed off the village, and sent in a penal betallion.
The farmhouse had a strongroom, and my great-grandmother locked in my father and grandmother up in it. She then went outside to meet her fate. She was fortunate. The first soldier was a Pole, and her being Silesian she spoke fluent Polish. The soldier stood guard at the door that night.
When the soldiers were gone, my great-grandmother went to fetch grandmother and father. When they went outside grandmother covered father's eyes, but it was too late. Father remembers seeing the neighbours in the trees in pieces ...
Two thirds of the village was dead.