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Oskar Paul Dirlewanger is a character in the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. He is one of the two main antagonists of the Southern Urals storyline, a minor antagonist in the overall storyline, and a possible villainous protagonist depending on player choice.
He is the leader of the Dirlewanger Brigade, a warlord-state in the Southern Urals. He is a former SS-Oberführer leading the 36th Waffen SS Panzer-Grenadier Brigade, which is currently a loose band of criminals in Orsk, Russia.
What Makes Him a Hate Sink?[]
- Besides being a former member of the SS, he's a sadistic, sexually depraved individual who relishes in the murder, rape, and torture of men, women, and children in the Southern Urals.
- Even before World War II broke out, Dirlewanger was convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl and stealing a government-owned vehicle. Even before this, he was convicted of embezzlement and arms trafficking.
- During World War II, he and his Dirlewanger Brigade (the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division) "committed countless atrocities in the Eastern campaigns" where he terrorized the civilians of Poland and Belarus. He committed similar atrocities in Russia again during the West Russian War of the 1950s.
- In 1944, He presided over the Wola Massacre which was the large scale killing of Poles in Warsaw during the Warsaw Uprising. His brigade raped, tortured, killed as many as 5,000 men, women and children with brutal tactics. Dirlewanger was known to separate women and children in basements and make the women watch their children be gunned down before the women were raped or murdered in brutal ways. He also ordered the men of the Polish Home Army scalped or castrated, with their respective “pieces” to be brought back to him for a promotion.
- Dirlewanger was known to watch his men strip women and children naked, douse them in gasoline and then burn them on the streets of Warsaw, cackling as the event took place. He also forced the dog handlers of the Brigade to refuse feeding their dogs meat or anything because he wanted partisans and the innocents to be mauled and torn apart by the hounds.
- He has no real loyalty to the SS or even the Nazi cause in general despite his ideology being listed as "National Socialist." This extends to employing soldiers who are considered subhuman.
- Dirlewanger has no real regard or empathy for the lives of others including his own men as he uses them as disposable cannon fodder.
- After defecting from the SS during the West Russian War, Dirlewanger took over the city of Orsk and began a reign of terror.
- He can potentially form an alliance with Trofim Lysenko's Magnitogorsk so they can invade and destroy Orenburg. With this alliance, Dirlewanger would be given the finest beer and women to torture, making him complicit in Lysenko's crimes.
- He has numerous events showing how despicable he is:
- If he defeats Orenburg and the Ural League, the in-game events describing this conquest mention entire villages being burnt to the ground, rivers filled with blood, men and children killed, women raped to death, and any survivors being sent to Magnitogorsk for involuntary experimentation.
- If said alliance is formed, he eventually betrays his pact with Lysenko (assuming Lysenko doesn't betray him first), backstabbing him to invade Magnitogorsk for himself in the hopes of looting his fortress.
- If he wins his war with Magnitogorsk, he will decapitate Lysenko and leave his corpse rotting on the ground before gloating at his death. The only thing he regrets is not having had more beer and women.
- One event has him forcing his men (under threat of death) to put a big artillery gun on the back of a truck, and then laughing when it recoils so hard that it kills two of his men. He then orders the other men to burn the bodies.
- Another has him rape and murder a Kazakh man for not washing his truck hard enough.
- When he is caught by his own men in the nude, they force the decapitated head of an old man to give him fellatio in the barracks.
- Should he succeed in all of his goals, Dirlewanger will declare himself a new Alexander the Great and boast about his intent to bring slaughter all across the world, and he will then start a conflict one of the larger nearby Russian warlord states, pillaging and completely ravaging the communities.
- According to one of his death events, he is responsible for 490 counts of rape.
- When he eventually dies, all of the land he conquered will collapse into a state of chaos until a unifier appears in West Russia or Western Siberia, showing that he put nothing in place to actually manage the land he conquered.
- While The New Order: Last Days of Europe has its fair share of fascists and other unsavory types, Dirlewanger stands out as the most detestable for the nature of his crimes and lack of redeeming qualities.
Trivia[]
- Dirlewanger is one of two Hate Sinks originating from The New Order: Last Days of Europe (the other being Francis Parker Yockey).
External Links[]
- Oskar Dirlewanger on the Villains Fanon Wiki
- Oskar Dirlewanger on the Pure Evil Wiki