SS Dirlewanger Brigade The History of the Black Hunters

Name: SS Dirlewanger Brigade The History of the Black Hunters
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ISBN: 9781620876312

ISBN-10: 1620876310

ISBN-13: 9781620876312

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christian Ingrao, Phoebe Green

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The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the skills necessary for hunting down and capturing partisan fighters in their camps in the forests of the Eastern Front. Their numbers were soon increased by others who were eager for a way out of imprisonment—including men who had been convicted of burglary, assault, murder, and rape.Under the leadership of Oskar Dirlewanger, a convicted rapist and alcoholic, they could do as they pleased: there were no repercussions for even their worst…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Christian Ingrao is director of research at the Institute of History of Present Times. He teaches at the ï¿½cole Plytechnique and at END-Cachan.



Introduction: The Dirlewanger "Moment"



The History of a Brigade


From Berlin to Lublin


Belarus, February 1942-July 1944


From Warsaw to Cottbus, August 1944-May 1945



The Dirlewanger Case


War as Horizon


Militancy as Substitution



Consent and Constraint


A Charismatic "Bandit Leader"?


Between Orgy and Brutality



Poachers in the Polis


Between Function and Symbol


Wild Men in the Polis?


Wild Men and Warriors



A Hunters' War?


Quarry and Spoils


The Origins of Violence



A New War?


Warsaw: An "Urban Jungle" for the Black Hunters?


Slovakia: Between Anti-Partisan Action and Frontline Combat


From Budapest to Cottbus: When Hunters Became Prey



Post-War


The Death of Oskar Dirlewanger


The Black Hunters in the German Courts: Gone to Ground


In the Margins of Memory


Conclusion


Notes


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