The SS Dirlewanger Brigade
Subtitle: the history of the Black Hunters
By: Christian Ingrao, translated by Phoebe Green
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781616084042
Subjects: Campaigns; Criminals; Waffen-SS; Eastern Front; Underground movements; World War, 1939-1945; Waffen-SS. SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger; Regimental histories; Atrocities; History
Other titles: History of the Black Hunters
Work titles: Chasseurs noirs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the Dirlewanger "moment"; title: The history of a brigade; title: From Berlin to Lublin; title: Belarus, February 1942-July 1944; title: From Warsaw to Cottbus, August 1944-May 1945; title: The Dirlewanger case; title: War as horizon; title: Militancy as substitution; title: Marginality and tenacity; title: Consent and constraint; title: A charismatic "bandit leader"?; title: Between orgy and brutality; title: Resistance and desertion in the Dirlewanger Division; title: Poachers in the polis; title: Between function and symbol; title: Wild men in the polis?; title: Wild men and warriors; title: A hunters' war?; title: Quarry and spoils; title: The origins of violence; title: A new war?; title: Warsaw: an "urban jungle" for the black hunters?; title: Slovakia: between anti-partisan action and the front; title: From Budapest to Cottbus: when hunters became prey; title: Post-war; title: The death of Oskar Dirlewanger; title: The Black Hunters in the German courts: gone to ground; title: In the margins of memory.