>>149871300
That guy is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger who was the commander of the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirlewanger_Brigade
The nazis needed more people to hold occupied territory, so obviously they made a ss unit with convicted criminals and who better to lead them than an officer already convicted for many crimes including child rape?
>Despite being an accomplished soldier who was considered brave,[93] Oskar Dirlewanger is invariably described as an extremely cruel man by historians and researchers. As such, he has been called "a psychopathic killer and child molester" by Steven Zaloga,[94] "a professional killer, fully malefic" by Rhodes,[70] "a sadist and necrophiliac" by Bryan Mark Rigg,[95] "an expert in extermination and a devotee of sadism and necrophilia" by J. Bowyer Bell,[96] and a "sadistic, amoral alcoholic" by Stang.[6]
>The unit is regarded as the most brutal and notorious Waffen-SS unit, with its soldiers described as "The ideal genocidal killers who neither gave nor expected quarter."[3] The unit is regarded as the most infamous Waffen-SS unit in Poland and Belarus,[4] and was one of the worst military units in modern European history in terms of criminality and cruelty.[5]
>During its operations, the unit participated in the mass murder of civilians and committed other atrocities in German-occupied Eastern Europe. It gained a reputation among Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS officers for its brutality. It epitomized the "anti-partisan activity on the Eastern front that emerged from the image of the hunt and the animalization of the enemy."[6] The unit continuously committed sadistic acts of violence, torture, rape and murder, and enjoyed plundering wherever they went, even killing each other during looting.[7] Dirlewanger himself often beat and killed his own troops as well, especially when they displeased him.[8]
