A fictional character inspired by Dirlewanger ( the SS commander with a small primate based on Dirlewanger 's exotic pet as described by Johannes Frießner and Ales Adamovich ) appears in the Elem Klimov 's 1985 Soviet war drama film '' Come and See '' , loosely based on Dirlewanger 's massacre of the village Khatyn in Belarus in 1943 . Dirlewanger and his unit were the subject of , or were featured in , various works of World War II fiction , such as the 1961 novel '' Brigade Dirlewanger '' by Will Berthold
massacre of the village Khatyn
Khatyn massacre
Oskar Dirlewanger