"26/09/1895\n\n07/06/1945" . "Who's who in Nazi Germany / R. Wistrich. - London : Routledge, 2002. - p. 43-44 ; Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich / E. Klee. - Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, 2003. - p. 113"@en . "Obersturmführer (1939), SS-Standartenführer (1944). Joined the Condor Legion in 1937. 1940 founded the special SS battalion\"Dirlewange\" made up of criminals. This unit was investigated by a Hauptamt SS court for extreme cruelty and murderous havoc during\"partisan comba\" in Poland and Belarus. The\"Dirlewange\" unit was also active in the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944."@en . . . . . "Dirlewanger Oskar Paul" . .