march 1940 nazi germany
after consulting with the reich's ss
leader heinrich himmler
adolf hitler approves the creation of a
special combat unit
composed exclusively of people serving a
prison sentence for poaching and related
crimes
this combat unit is recruited to fight
partisans in mountainous areas
soon murderers psychopaths sexual
deviants and rapists of the worst degree
will become members of this unit which
will terrorize the civilians and commit
unspeakable atrocities mostly in poland
and belarus
its commander becomes oscar de la vaga
one of the most sadistic nazi criminals
oscar de lavanga was born on the 26th of
september 1895 and his father was a
merchant
after the outbreak of world war one
delavanga took part in the german
invasion of belgium and later fought in
france
he was wounded six times received the
iron cross second class and first class
and in november 1918 at the time of
germany surrender he held the rank of
lieutenant
the front experiences had a damaging
effect on de lavanga's personality
when world war one ended oscar de
lavanga was described as a mentally
unstable violent fanatic and alcoholic
people with such personality traits were
top candidates for the nazi party and sa
which oscar de lavanga joined in 1923
one year earlier in 1922 he had
completed his studies at the guthol
university in frankfurt and received his
doctorate in political science
oscar de lavanga was also a pedophile
and rapist
in 1934 he raped a 13 year old girl from
the league of german girls which was the
female section of hitler youth
he was also convicted of driving and
damaging a government vehicle while
under the influence of alcohol
as a result he lost his doctorate was
expelled from the nazi party nsa
and sentenced to two years imprisonment
after his release between 1936 and 1939
he fought in the condor legion which was
the german military units into spain to
support general franco's nationalist
movement during the spanish civil war
it was a great opportunity for nazi
germany to test and develop methods of
strategic bombing which was soon after
used during the second world war
de lavanga was wounded three times and
after his return he was again allowed to
join the nazi party and regained his
doctorate which he had lost for having
raped a 13 year old girl
world war ii started on the 1st of
september 1939 and in july 1940 de
lavanga was admitted to the ss
he created and trained a special
criminal unit named the delavanga
brigade which at the beginning consisted
mostly of convicted poachers
they were recruited thanks to their
tracking and shooting skills to fight
partisans
later his unit recruited mostly
convicted german criminals
at first his unit was sent to
nazi-occupied poland where de lavanga
became a commandant of a camp at
starijkuv which was set up for jewish
slave labor
they committed atrocities here as well
as in the ghetto in lublin they used to
undress the young jewish female
prisoners then they whipped them and
injected them with strychnine
they were laughing as the poor victims
were convulsing to death in front of
them
there were even rumors that they used to
cut up jewish women and boil them with
horse meat to make soap
heinrich himmler as well as de lavanga's
patron and friend gatlo burger
knew about these atrocities and
tolerated them
they needed men like dellavenga in their
fight against the so-called non-aryan
sub-humans
in february 1942 the de lavanga brigade
was sent to belarus where they not only
raped and tortured young women but also
killed at least 30 000 belarusian
civilians
their specialty was to cram the local
population inside a barn
and then set it on fire
whoever tried to escape from the burning
barn was shot with a machine gun
as were the einsatzgruppen which were
nazi death squads operating behind the
front line in nazi occupied eastern
europe derlavong's unit made their
victims often naked kneel down on the
edge of a mass grave
der lavonne's commandos then shot them
in the back of the neck with an
automatic pistol
and the bodies would drop straight into
the pit
on 1 august 1944
the warsaw uprisings began
and
his men participated in its oppression
while committing unspeakable crimes
during the uprising they also took part
in the vola massacre during which 40 000
poles were murdered in the vola
neighborhood of the polish capital
this massacre was ordered by adolf
hitler himself who requested to kill
anything that moves in order to stop the
warsaw uprising
the de lavanga brigade burned three
hospitals with patients inside
the nurses were whipped gang raped and
hanged naked together with doctors
he did not have any mercy even with
children
when they found a daycare with five
hundred children inside
delavan ordered his men to kill them
because he wanted his men to save their
bullets
they killed the poor children with rifle
butts and bayonets
in the old town of warsaw thousands of
civilians and prisoners of war
regardless of gender and age were raped
and murdered
many of them were shot or set on fire
with flamethrowers
the warsaw uprising lasted 63 days
ending on the 2nd of october 1944
even though the red army was in the
suburbs of warsaw it did not help the
poles
it is believed that a major reason why
stalin decided not to support the
uprising was because he wanted to
establish a pro-soviet communist regime
in poland
and a successful uprising of the rebels
who supported the democratic polish
government in exile in london could
threaten his plans
it is estimated that more than 150 000
civilians died in the warsaw uprising
for his merits in the suppression of the
uprising oscar de lavanga was promoted
and awarded the knights cross of the
iron cross
in october 1944
delavanga and his men played a crucial
role in the brutal suppression of a
slovak national uprising which lasted
from the 29th of august to the 28th of
october 1944.
later they took part in fights against
the advancing red army in hungary in
germany
after the end of the war
oscar de lavanga was arrested on the 1st
of june 1945
although he was wearing civilian clothes
and using a false name he was recognized
by a jewish former concentration camp
prisoner and brought to a detention
center
de lavanga died on the 7th of june 1945.
officially he died of a heart attack
however the truth is that after he had
been recognized by former polish
prisoners
they beat him to death in revenge for
his brutality in suppressing the warsaw
uprising
there were no tears shed for oscar de
lavanga
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