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The SS Dirlewanger Brigade : the history of the Black Hunters / Christian Ingrao ; translated from the French by Phoebe Green.
- Title
- The SS Dirlewanger Brigade : the history of the Black Hunters / Christian Ingrao ; translated from the French by Phoebe Green.
- Author
- Ingrao, Christian
- Publication
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2011.
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| Text | Request in advance | D757.85 .I5413 2011 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Green, Phoebe (Translator)
- Description
- vi, 262 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Details the history of the Dirlewanger Brigade, an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army tasked with capturing partisan fighters, and recounts the atrocities the brigade executed and the repercussions of its actions.
- Uniform Title
- Chasseurs noirs. English
- Alternative Title
- Chasseurs noirs.
- History of the Black Hunters
- Subject
- Dirlewanger, Oskar, 1895-1945
- Waffen-SS. SS-Sonderkommando Dirlewanger > History
- World War, 1939-1945 > Regimental histories > Germany
- Criminals > Germany > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front
- World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements
- World War, 1939-1945 > Atrocities
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: the Dirlewanger "moment" -- The history of a brigade -- From Berlin to Lublin -- Belarus, February 1942-July 1944 -- From Warsaw to Cottbus, August 1944-May 1945 -- The Dirlewanger case -- War as horizon -- Militancy as substitution -- Marginality and tenacity -- Consent and constraint -- A charismatic "bandit leader"? -- Between orgy and brutality -- Resistance and desertion in the Dirlewanger Division -- Poachers in the polis -- Between function and symbol -- Wild men in the polis? -- Wild men and warriors -- A hunters' war? -- Quarry and spoils -- The origins of violence -- A new war? -- Warsaw: an "urban jungle" for the black hunters? -- Slovakia: between anti-partisan action and the front -- From Budapest to Cottbus: when hunters became prey -- Post-war -- The death of Oskar Dirlewanger -- The Black Hunters in the German courts: gone to ground -- In the margins of memory.
- ISBN
- 9781616084042 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 1616084049 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2011029805
- OCLC
- 711051893
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library