Nazi Victory: What happens to Oskar Dirlewanger?

What happens to Oskar Dirlewanger?

  • He retires and his unit is disbanded

    Votes: 3 8.8%
  • Him and his penal division are kept in the East indefinitely

    Votes: 24 70.6%
  • The unit's disbanded and he gets a job elsewhere

    Votes: 7 20.6%

  • Total voters
    34

Wendigo

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In an AANW type scenario where the Reich has control of Europe from France to the Urals, what would happen to Oskar Dirlewanger and his penal division?

Would the unit be disbanded or kept in the USSR to aid in anti partisan warfare and assist in Generalplan Ost?

Is it possible that the unit would become a dumping ground for the dregs of the Greater Germanic Reich (criminals, lunatics, misfits etc)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS
 
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I imagine Dirlewanger's penal division would remain stationed in Eastern Europe to enforce Nazi rule and carry out the dirtiest deeds. Their unrestrained barbarism would continue to prove useful.

Although I have yet to read CalBear's AANW, I have read wiking's Three Fish TL, which also depicts a Nazi victory in WWII. In his scenario the SS actively recruits from the criminal elements of Europe and sends them to the East to help enforce order and implement Generalplan Ost. So Dirlewanger and his men would be joined by even more psychopaths. Eastern Europe would be a living hell for the Slavic peoples...
 
I voted for option two, but personally I think he gets executed or send to a KZ as soon as he isn't of use anymore.

He is just too unreliable and always was a necessary evil in the eyes of most of the Nazi leadership. Why have a mad dog run rampage with danger of him biting you, when you don't really need the dog anymore because you have a fully automated system.
 
There'll *always* be dirty work to do. After they've wiped out the partisans, there'll be towns to 'cleanse', sub-cultures to bury and evidence to lose...
 
I voted for option two, but personally I think he gets executed or send to a KZ as soon as he isn't of use anymore.

He is just too unreliable and always was a necessary evil in the eyes of most of the Nazi leadership. Why have a mad dog run rampage with danger of him biting you, when you don't really need the dog anymore because you have a fully automated system.

I somewhat agree, but I suspect that there would be a general amnesty for him and his men upon the end of the war for any crimes committed (well the crimes that the Nazi government didnt like, obviously they wouldnt be too bothered about the mass rape, torture, and extermination the brigade engaged in) along with a quiet warning that any further crimes against the citizens of Germany and its allies would be punished with death. Given the fact he was basically a sadistic serial killer/rapist who had literally zero self control....yeah hes gonna end up shot in a gestapo basement, buried in a mass grave, and erased from SS records. Stupidly evil as the Nazis were, they would have literally no reason (even by idiot-nazi-logic) to keep him around once they realised he was an absolutely worthless liability.
 
I think even other German war criminals complained that he made their jobs tougher. IMO, his unit would keep getting kicked east and replenished with more criminals as German civilian settlement proceeds outward. The unit would end its existence somewhere in Siberia.
 
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