Dirlewanger Brigade/Game

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## National Focus

See Dirlewanger Brigade/Focus Tree for more information.

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
A lifetime criminal opportunitst, Dirlewanger was imprisoned in 1934 for the rape of an underaged girl, and escaped only this and other later convictions through political connections and, in 1939, by his volunteering for service in the Waffen-SS. There, his depravity was found to be accompanied by a talent for effective, if brutal, leadership, resulting in his promotion to command what would become the first iteration of the so-called 'Dirlewanger Brigade.'
During the war this unit, shielded by association with the SS, committed uncounted atrocities in the Eastern campaigns, burning and pillaging its way across Poland and Russia. These actions were repeated in the West Russian War, and what evidence of those actions survives make it clear that Dirlewanger's brutality and criminality only increased with time.
His life changed dramatically, however, in the aftermath of Himmler and the SS's failed coup. Opening fire on the Wehrmacht units that had arrived to disarm and imprison them, Dirlewanger and his men escaped into the Russian winter, eventually carving out a fiefdom in the Southern Urals from which they could pursue their greatest passions - plunder and blood.
At this, he and his Brigade are all too effective. But Dirlewanger has grown somewhat tired with ravaging nameless villages, and has his eyes set on the two prizes of the region: the city of Orenburg and the facilities on the Black Mountain. He thinks he would very much enjoy burning them to the ground.
After taking everything of value, of course.
 National Socialism

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
* Division Attack: **+10.0%**
 **Lorenz Hackenholt** |  **Foreign Minister**
 National Socialism

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
* AI Modifier: Join Ally Desire: **-30**
 **Erich Bauer** |  **Economy Minister**
 National Socialism

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
* Construction Speed: **+5.00%**
 **Fritz Schmedes** |  **Security Minister**
 National Socialism

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
* Encryption: **+0.50**
* Decryption: **-0.50**

### National Spirits

   **The American Malaise** | effect.

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### Possible Leaders

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
A lifetime criminal opportunitst, Dirlewanger was imprisoned in 1934 for the rape of an underaged girl, and escaped only this and other later convictions through political connections and, in 1939, by his volunteering for service in the Waffen-SS. There, his depravity was found to be accompanied by a talent for effective, if brutal, leadership, resulting in his promotion to command what would become the first iteration of the so-called 'Dirlewanger Brigade.'
During the war this unit, shielded by association with the SS, committed uncounted atrocities in the Eastern campaigns, burning and pillaging its way across Poland and Russia. These actions were repeated in the West Russian War, and what evidence of those actions survives make it clear that Dirlewanger's brutality and criminality only increased with time.
His life changed dramatically, however, in the aftermath of Himmler and the SS's failed coup. Opening fire on the Wehrmacht units that had arrived to disarm and imprison them, Dirlewanger and his men escaped into the Russian winter, eventually carving out a fiefdom in the Southern Urals from which they could pursue their greatest passions - plunder and blood.
At this, he and his Brigade are all too effective. But Dirlewanger has grown somewhat tired with ravaging nameless villages, and has his eyes set on the two prizes of the region: the city of Orenburg and the facilities on the Black Mountain. He thinks he would very much enjoy burning them to the ground.
After taking everything of value, of course.

Dirlewanger-Loyalisten
Exiled to the Brigade long ago following a dispute with Heinrich Himmler, and although he initially had worked hard to try and escape it, when it turned from a military unit into a bandit force he followed, and adapted. Perhaps tapping to a darkness that was always there, he quickly became almost as monstrous as his commander, working to plan and execute many of the Brigade's most daring raids.
Now, with Dirlewanger dead and the Brigade in near-anarchy, Schmedes leads the crippled remnants that are still loyal, desperately trying to maintain some form of unity. However, with desertions increasing, splinter groups forming, and punitive expeditions increasingly launched against him, it would seem as though his efforts are doomed to failure.

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### Laws

*Wait until TT has been released to edit*