I believe my younger self first read of Dirlewanger in Sven Hassel's books. I remember being a bit surprised when I found out that this criminal actually existed. Interesting video again, Stefan! Thank you 👍 Greets from Grun' 🇳🇱, TW.
During at least one operation in which the Dirlewanger unit participated, the overall German commander had to specify in his operational order that "personnel are expressly prohibited from looting." He was that concerned about the unit's behavior...
We will never know extent of the crimes of these criminals, because they did not have social media. We can see soldiers in 2024 on social media posting same crimes done in 2024 and being cheered on by fans. Have we not learned anything from history ?
A well made video Stefan, but I must admit that my stomach turned as I listened to the horrible things they did. I have a copy of Dirlewangers personnel file. It was on a roll of microfilm I bought with a different file I was after. I have never looked at Dirlewangers documents because I do not want to know anything more about that evil POS..
It was a great historical coverage episode about the most beasts Derilawanger briegate commander, episode shared by an amazing ( history Hustle) .episode introduced by Sir Stefan 🙏....thanks for sharing
Excellent video as always! But make no mistake: apalling atrocities happened elsewhere too, the horror of German occupation against civilians left its mark all over Europe, especially in the East and the Balkans.
I thought Warsaw '44 was an amazing movie. Somehow a love story was interlaced with the patriotic effort and brutality of the Germans. How any Pole could ever forgive the German nation is beyond me. Somehow the Poles are forward looking people and do not dwell on the past. They will never forget, they just dont dwell on it. If you did dwell on their past, you would lose your mind!
Thank you for this video! They sound like America's Dirty 12, which was turned into the movie (fiction) the Dirty Dozen. The real soldiers were paratroopers who liked to blow things up and were so hateful of authority that they were uncontrollable, but that fact made the so much more dangerous to the Germans. There are photos of them getting ready to bet into the Dakotas and they were had their hair cut into Mohawk haircuts and were putting on war paint. People now think that a lot of units did that but as far as is actually recorded events, there are none. The reason they did that was that two of their number were half Indians. Ive got a book about them that starts off with their "leader" as a high school student. He was on the offensive team and when they liked up against each other, it was and is still a thing where before the ball is snapped the opposing linemen make ugly faces and try to look tougher than their opponent. Our hero watched the opposing lineman make faces, and did not make one. He had a mouth full of some liquid that would irritate eyes and as soon as the ball was snapped he sprayed the liquid into the other's eyes. And as soon as the play was over he went over and pretended to help his opponent so that when the referees came to see what was wrong with the man, our hero got the first word to the referees and was able to convince them that his opponent had been saying that to him while he was "trying" to help and that he had no idea why. So that was the introduction to our hero, the one most frequently seen in photos taken before getting into the plane. Since you are Dutch, I want to show you a story I did about Dutch pilots training in Jackson, Mississippi in WW2. www.landmarkscout.com/section-41-cedar-lawn-cemetery-jackson-mississippi-usa/
For all that talk about his background i can't really see why you left out that he had shrapnel stuck in his brain from a ww1 injury, something that could explain some of his other personal features.
That testimony of his Death sounds rather too good to be true! He looked rather old for his age and out of uniform he would just have disappeared into the masses of displaced people.
Dirlewanger and his brigade were truly terrible, and in a sense became the standard by which many German soldiers and especially Waffen-SS were judged. Guilt by association, if you will. I'm not apologizing for the atrocities committed by the Germans, or any side for that matter, but if I were a brainwashed Hitlerjugend member who joined the 12th SS as an idealistic 17-year-old fighting in Normandy and was placed in the same category as Dirlewanger, I'd be somewhat upset, to say the least. Also, am I the only one who thinks that German doctorates in the 1920s and 1930s were equivalent to American bachelors (or even associates) today? So many senior Nazis had their post-graduate degrees. That such "highly educated" men followed a "Bohemian Corporal" indicates either a lack of objective intellectualism, or a complicit agreement with Nazism's worst policies.
Well, the idf are the modern Bolsheviks and Soviets. Go and look up something called the Holodomor. Another ✡️ act of ethnic cleansing and genocide against white people.
A big hello Stefan from India. I remember reading somewhere that the then West German government was paying pensions to collaborators from France Netherlands Austria etc. Is it true?
Since the dawn of conflicts people look at their prisons and think "wait, they'll be proteced here while my son is dying in the frontlines?". Of course, that didn't stop the West propaganda machine from demonizing it when Russia did it 😅 Had to get people really mad so that they would ignore the obvious.
If even the regular waffen didn't want to do with him. Ussr, Croatia, Serbia had similar groups. While French Africans behaved similar to Oskar and Beria in southern Italy. 4:46 Sounds like Afghanistan as well. Soviets being cruel towards the locals. Edit: when telling their crimes. Fell getting to vomit. And anger.
Stefan, Prince Eugen. Eugen, Eugeny, Euvgeny, Yevgeny, Levgeny, Yewgeny. Name has the same root. Yew/Yev comes from 'Jew'. So if you are going to do a video about the 'Prinz Eugen'. Perhaps interesting to take this in account. Crimes comitted in name of a prince. And what kind of a one! Oh well. Having an avatar of the son of Prince Vegeta 👊 18... 🤭
so far, so good. he fought in the brutal wwi, then probably had ptsd, but still managed to study for phd, and then fought street skirmishes with commies, so that is good too, but we are just into one minute and seconds. how old was the underaged girl, exactly? then the spanish war, again against leftoids. i'm starting to like this guy.
Are you a serious historian or a political activist? When are you going to become even notionally apolitical and start covering the very many atrocities committed by the Allies?
Is your argument "but they did it too!".. Do you want condemnation of the allies? Sure: the "strategic" bombing campaigns were inhumane. The topic of the video is still a fact,convicts who are enlisted are obviously more cruel as this video explains. There are plenty of videos about war crimes from every participant in ww2 nobody is keeping you from watching those.
THis was a great video and it's an important piece of history to cover. That having been said, I feel we need to focus less on people like Dirlewanger and more on ordinary Germans who took part in atrocities. It's too easy to hate someone like Dirlewanger. He was a child molester even before he became a Nazi; alcoholism and drug addiction merely add some "flavor" to it all. His level of sadism and depravity in carrying out the Final Solution, as shown in this video, were beyond ordinary levels of horror. However, its important to remember that the Holocaust in particular and German war crimes in general were committed on such a wide scale that they could not all have been committed by thoroughly venal fiends like Oskar Dirlewanger and the men in his brigade. Many attrocities were committed by ordinary Germans from ordinary, non-political backgrounds. By focusing on vile stories such as this, we avoid the real horror: that ordinary people with very little indoctrination committed acts no less vile than the ones documented here. I know this channel needs clicks for monetization and monetization continually permits this channel to "hustle history for YOOOOOUU!" I just wish we had more coverage of the ordinary Germans whose crimes were no less extraordinary.
Azerbaijani Axis collaboration:
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SS-Prinz Eugen:
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Kaminski Brigade (SS RONA):
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Obrigado, Stefan! ☑ 🇧🇷
Lest we forget.
Appreciate you covering the difficult topics.
Stefan, great history reminder of where humanity is possibly headed once again. Thank you for sharing Amigo!
I believe my younger self first read of Dirlewanger in Sven Hassel's books. I remember being a bit surprised when I found out that this criminal actually existed. Interesting video again, Stefan! Thank you 👍
Greets from Grun' 🇳🇱, TW.
Thank you once again for another good video. I always watch everything you make, keep up the good work.
Thanks Stef, I love that your vids are both educational and entertaining
Thanks for sharing this!
During at least one operation in which the Dirlewanger unit participated, the overall German commander had to specify in his operational order that "personnel are expressly prohibited from looting." He was that concerned about the unit's behavior...
We will never know extent of the crimes of these criminals, because they did not have social media. We can see soldiers in 2024 on social media posting same crimes done in 2024 and being cheered on by fans. Have we not learned anything from history ?
Sadly the saying "history repeats itself" is true.
Even the SS didn't like them...that's pretty bad.
Indeed.
The church scene in Come and See was terrible to watch
A well made video Stefan, but I must admit that my stomach turned as I listened to the horrible things they did. I have a copy of Dirlewangers personnel file. It was on a roll of microfilm I bought with a different file I was after. I have never looked at Dirlewangers documents because I do not want to know anything more about that evil POS..
When the regular SS is appalled by your actions.... 😬
It was a great historical coverage episode about the most beasts Derilawanger briegate commander, episode shared by an amazing ( history Hustle) .episode introduced by Sir Stefan 🙏....thanks for sharing
An interesting if appalling subject. Fascinating all the same and well presented.
Excellent video as always! But make no mistake: apalling atrocities happened elsewhere too, the horror of German occupation against civilians left its mark all over Europe, especially in the East and the Balkans.
I had a mayhem long sleave with the crossed stick grenade crest on it, that got retired from wardrobe sharpish after i saw "come and see"
“He was arrested by French forces and guarded by Polish soldiers“
Oh, the turntables...
This creature won a knights cross! I bet the other knights cross holders were not happy.
He seems like a nice guy. Everyone makes mistakes...
I thought Warsaw '44 was an amazing movie. Somehow a love story was interlaced with the patriotic effort and brutality of the Germans. How any Pole could ever forgive the German nation is beyond me. Somehow the Poles are forward looking people and do not dwell on the past. They will never forget, they just dont dwell on it. If you did dwell on their past, you would lose your mind!
they don't like commies either.
I have an idea,can u use one of the videos to explore why Dutch defense it was so poor.?
ah yes the gamer brigade
Interesting.
👍
The worst of the worst were those from the 1st Gendarmerie-Bataillon (motorised)
The worst of the worst are jews
Thank you for this video! They sound like America's Dirty 12, which was turned into the movie (fiction) the Dirty Dozen. The real soldiers were paratroopers who liked to blow things up and were so hateful of authority that they were uncontrollable, but that fact made the so much more dangerous to the Germans. There are photos of them getting ready to bet into the Dakotas and they were had their hair cut into Mohawk haircuts and were putting on war paint. People now think that a lot of units did that but as far as is actually recorded events, there are none. The reason they did that was that two of their number were half Indians. Ive got a book about them that starts off with their "leader" as a high school student. He was on the offensive team and when they liked up against each other, it was and is still a thing where before the ball is snapped the opposing linemen make ugly faces and try to look tougher than their opponent. Our hero watched the opposing lineman make faces, and did not make one. He had a mouth full of some liquid that would irritate eyes and as soon as the ball was snapped he sprayed the liquid into the other's eyes. And as soon as the play was over he went over and pretended to help his opponent so that when the referees came to see what was wrong with the man, our hero got the first word to the referees and was able to convince them that his opponent had been saying that to him while he was "trying" to help and that he had no idea why. So that was the introduction to our hero, the one most frequently seen in photos taken before getting into the plane.
Since you are Dutch, I want to show you a story I did about Dutch pilots training in Jackson, Mississippi in WW2. www.landmarkscout.com/section-41-cedar-lawn-cemetery-jackson-mississippi-usa/
For all that talk about his background i can't really see why you left out that he had shrapnel stuck in his brain from a ww1 injury, something that could explain some of his other personal features.
That testimony of his Death sounds rather too good to be true! He looked rather old for his age and out of uniform he would just have disappeared into the masses of displaced people.
Did Dirlewanger's men won Knight's crosses in WW2??
Dirlegang 🇩🇪🇩🇪🤙🤙🤙
Dirlewanger and his brigade were truly terrible, and in a sense became the standard by which many German soldiers and especially Waffen-SS were judged. Guilt by association, if you will. I'm not apologizing for the atrocities committed by the Germans, or any side for that matter, but if I were a brainwashed Hitlerjugend member who joined the 12th SS as an idealistic 17-year-old fighting in Normandy and was placed in the same category as Dirlewanger, I'd be somewhat upset, to say the least.
Also, am I the only one who thinks that German doctorates in the 1920s and 1930s were equivalent to American bachelors (or even associates) today? So many senior Nazis had their post-graduate degrees. That such "highly educated" men followed a "Bohemian Corporal" indicates either a lack of objective intellectualism, or a complicit agreement with Nazism's worst policies.
propaganda and indoctrination since youth is a powerful thing
Nothing has changed regarding intellectuals following blindly people in power, we witnessed that recently during covid.
They seem pretty tame compared to what the IDF does.
Well, the idf are the modern Bolsheviks and Soviets. Go and look up something called the Holodomor. Another ✡️ act of ethnic cleansing and genocide against white people.
During the Warsaw uprising they made a dark representation for themselves
See video.
A big hello Stefan from India. I remember reading somewhere that the then West German government was paying pensions to collaborators from France Netherlands Austria etc. Is it true?
Since the dawn of conflicts there are always penal units
Ok.
Since the dawn of conflicts people look at their prisons and think "wait, they'll be proteced here while my son is dying in the frontlines?". Of course, that didn't stop the West propaganda machine from demonizing it when Russia did it 😅 Had to get people really mad so that they would ignore the obvious.
horrible monsters
Make a video about the IDF-Einsatzgruppen.
You mean Hamas? Not my thing.
Keep drinking that kool aid skippy...
sounds like a false flag operation by the allies to give natsocs a bad image but in reality they all where wanted by the law!
Watch the movie Warsaw '44
See video, I refer to the movie.
If even the regular waffen didn't want to do with him.
Ussr, Croatia, Serbia had similar groups. While French Africans behaved similar to Oskar and Beria in southern Italy.
4:46
Sounds like Afghanistan as well. Soviets being cruel towards the locals.
Edit: when telling their crimes. Fell getting to vomit. And anger.
Sad history yes. Thanks for watching.
Some people compared the wagner group to the dirlewanger brigade
not even close
See video.
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356very close actually
@@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356Care to elaborate? Sounds fairly freaking close to me.
@@thebomb252 wagner pmc isnt staffed for the most part by convicts and poachers
Dirlewanger brigade wasnt allowed to have ss runes on their uniforms
Dirlewanger himself had.
@@HistoryHustle yes but not the soldiers under his command
The Geheime StaatsPolizei did not have SS runes on their epaulettes.
I wonder How the Japanese would view them 🙄🤔
*Imperial
Some say that oskar dirlewanger dead died of ill treatment and others beaten to death by polish soldiers
See video.
Lol and i remember seeing a video of ukrainian soldier some time ago (during current russia-ukraine) war wearing this brigade emblem.
Ok
👍
Stefan,
Prince Eugen.
Eugen, Eugeny, Euvgeny, Yevgeny, Levgeny, Yewgeny. Name has the same root.
Yew/Yev comes from 'Jew'.
So if you are going to do a video about the 'Prinz Eugen'. Perhaps interesting to take this in account.
Crimes comitted in name of a prince. And what kind of a one!
Oh well. Having an avatar of the son of Prince Vegeta 👊 18...
🤭
Already made one on this unit, not sure what you are trying to insinuate.
Bastards
Sounds like the Soviet penal battalions.
Free Palestine.
💣💣🔯👍
Go fuck yourself
This is a Video about history not your shit
so far, so good. he fought in the brutal wwi, then probably had ptsd, but still managed to study for phd, and then fought street skirmishes with commies, so that is good too, but we are just into one minute and seconds. how old was the underaged girl, exactly? then the spanish war, again against leftoids. i'm starting to like this guy.
Are you a serious historian or a political activist? When are you going to become even notionally apolitical and start covering the very many atrocities committed by the Allies?
The Germans comitted genocide and a war of extermination. The allies didn't. Sorry for your naz propaganda.
Is your argument "but they did it too!".. Do you want condemnation of the allies? Sure: the "strategic" bombing campaigns were inhumane. The topic of the video is still a fact,convicts who are enlisted are obviously more cruel as this video explains. There are plenty of videos about war crimes from every participant in ww2 nobody is keeping you from watching those.
These so called "men" could be the inspiration for Hamas !
THis was a great video and it's an important piece of history to cover. That having been said, I feel we need to focus less on people like Dirlewanger and more on ordinary Germans who took part in atrocities. It's too easy to hate someone like Dirlewanger. He was a child molester even before he became a Nazi; alcoholism and drug addiction merely add some "flavor" to it all. His level of sadism and depravity in carrying out the Final Solution, as shown in this video, were beyond ordinary levels of horror. However, its important to remember that the Holocaust in particular and German war crimes in general were committed on such a wide scale that they could not all have been committed by thoroughly venal fiends like Oskar Dirlewanger and the men in his brigade. Many attrocities were committed by ordinary Germans from ordinary, non-political backgrounds. By focusing on vile stories such as this, we avoid the real horror: that ordinary people with very little indoctrination committed acts no less vile than the ones documented here. I know this channel needs clicks for monetization and monetization continually permits this channel to "hustle history for YOOOOOUU!" I just wish we had more coverage of the ordinary Germans whose crimes were no less extraordinary.
Dr OSkar was een brave Swaab en een joviale vent. Net als zijn collega's van polizei bataljon 101.
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