former concentration camp inmate and brought to a detention centre. He reportedly died around 5–7 June 1945 in a prison camp at Altshausen, probably as a result of ill treatment. There are numerous conflicting reports of the nature of his death: the French said that he died of a heart attack and was buried in an unmarked grave; or he was taken by armed Poles, presumably former forced laborers; or French military prisoners (of Polish descent); or Polish soldiers (29xième Groupement d'Infanterie Polonaise), who were mistreated in French custody; or former inmates and prison guards; or that he escaped and there were some rumours that he joined the foreign legion. Ultimately his fate is unknown, but it is generally considered most likely that he died at Altshausen. Awards Iron Cross(1914) 2nd Class (28 August 1914), 1st Class (13 July 1916) Wound Badge(1914) in Gold (30 April 1918) Spanish Cross of Military Merit (1939) Clasp to the Iron Cross(1939) 2nd Class (24 May 1942), 1st Class (16 September 1942) Wound Badge(1939) in Gold (9 July 1943) German Cross in Gold (5 December 1943) Close Combat Clasp (19 March 1944) Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (30 September 1944) Anti-partisan badge in Silver (1944) Legacy Wolfsbrigade 44, a German Neo-Nazi group which was banned by the federal government of Germany in December 2020, who according to The Times, used the "44" as code for "DD", short for "Division Dirlewanger". References Footnotes Bibliography , pp. 226–256 External links Oskar Dirlewanger www.HolocaustResearchProject.org 1895 births 1945 deaths 20th-century Freikorps personnel Child sexual abuse in Poland Child sexual abuse in the Soviet Union Condor Legion personnel Criminals from Bavaria German Army personnel of World War I German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War German people convicted of child sexual abuse German people who died in prison custody German rapists Goethe University Frankfurt alumni Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Military personnel from Würzburg Murdered criminals People convicted of embezzlement People convicted of statutory rape offenses People from the Kingdom of Bavaria People with antisocial personality disorder Prisoners who died in French detention Recipients of the clasp to the Iron Cross, 1st class Recipients of the Gold German Cross Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross SS-Oberführer Waffen-SS personnel Warsaw Uprising German forces