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Oskar Dirlewanger

1895 - 1945

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Oskar Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – c. 7 June 1945) was a German SS commander and habitual offender, convicted for rape of children and other crimes. He is known for committing numerous war crimes and atrocities in German-occupied territories during World War II. Dirlewanger was the founder and commander of the SS penal unit, the Dirlewanger Brigade, considered to be the most brutal and notorious Waffen-SS unit. His unit epitomized the expansion of the war of terror in its most brutal form within the SS, and with Dirlewanger himself regarded as perhaps the Nazi regime's "most extreme executioner," indulging himself in sadistic acts of violence, rape and murder. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oskar Dirlewanger has received more than 3,187,683 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Oskar Dirlewanger is the 203rd most popular military personnel (down from 178th in 2019), the 502nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 427th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Military Personnel.

Oskar Dirlewanger was a Nazi officer in the SS who is most famous for his command of the SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger, a unit of the Waffen-SS that was responsible for mass killings, punitive expeditions, and the destruction of Warsaw.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Oskar Dirlewanger ranks 203 out of 2,058. Before him are Dietrich von Choltitz, Aleksei Brusilov, Bai Qi, Maximilian von Weichs, Andrey Vlasov, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne. After him are Sun Jian, Henning von Tresckow, Lavr Kornilov, Yue Fei, George Armstrong Custer, and Erhard Milch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Oskar Dirlewanger ranks 33. Before him are Semyon Timoshenko, Anastas Mikoyan, Gerhard Domagk, Cemal Gürsel, Ragnar Frisch, and Rudolph Valentino. After him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Babe Ruth, Wilhelm Burgdorf, László Moholy-Nagy, Khorloogiin Choibalsan, and Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen. Among people deceased in 1945, Oskar Dirlewanger ranks 45. Before him are Giovanni Agnelli, Friedrich Fromm, Francis William Aston, Ernst Busch, Vladimir Vernadsky, and Franz Werfel. After him are Josef Kramer, Hans Geiger, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Robert Ritter von Greim, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, and Theodore Dreiser.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Oskar Dirlewanger ranks 502 out of 7,253. Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879), Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Maximilian von Weichs (1881), and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1908). After him are Duchess Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria (1847), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Hans Adolf Krebs (1900), Erwin Panofsky (1892), Frank Farian (1941), and Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg (1856).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Oskar Dirlewanger ranks 44. Before him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Georg von Küchler (1881), Hans Krebs (1898), Ernst Busch (1885), Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), and Maximilian von Weichs (1881). After him are Henning von Tresckow (1901), Erhard Milch (1892), Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895), Wilhelm List (1880), and Kurt Student (1890).

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