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<blockquote data-quote="Junior Bonner" data-source="post: 2534146" data-attributes="member: 33416"><p>I read that too. The Russians gave their Punishment Battalions bolt action rifles and dark trench coats to draw fire, as their professional infantry took advantage of the diversional tactic. But the Germans tried to make something more of it. Even using the criminally insane out of mental asylums. Armed them up real good, hazardous duty pay, accelerated promotions, etc.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Edit: Google "Dirlewanger Brigade" It's absolutely mind boggling. The members weren't forced to join it. But were given a choice as the prison systems were cleared out. They could volunteer or be executed.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Quotes: </p><p></p><p>"His unit was most notably credited with the destruction of Warsaw, and the massacre of the city's population during the Warsaw Uprising; and participating in the brutal suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in 1944. Dirlewanger's unit earned notoriety as the most criminal and heinous SS unit in Hitler's war machine."</p><p></p><p>"In contrast to those who served in the German penal battalions for committing minor offences, the recruits sent into Dirlewanger's band were convicted of major crimes such as premeditated murder, rape, arson and burglary. Dirlewanger provided them with an opportunity to commit atrocities on such a scale that even the SS executioners complained.[5] Martin Windrow, the British historian, described them as a "terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats, renegades, sadistic morons, and cashiered rejects from other units".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Junior Bonner, post: 2534146, member: 33416"] I read that too. The Russians gave their Punishment Battalions bolt action rifles and dark trench coats to draw fire, as their professional infantry took advantage of the diversional tactic. But the Germans tried to make something more of it. Even using the criminally insane out of mental asylums. Armed them up real good, hazardous duty pay, accelerated promotions, etc. Edit: Google "Dirlewanger Brigade" It's absolutely mind boggling. The members weren't forced to join it. But were given a choice as the prison systems were cleared out. They could volunteer or be executed. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS[/url] Quotes: "His unit was most notably credited with the destruction of Warsaw, and the massacre of the city's population during the Warsaw Uprising; and participating in the brutal suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in 1944. Dirlewanger's unit earned notoriety as the most criminal and heinous SS unit in Hitler's war machine." "In contrast to those who served in the German penal battalions for committing minor offences, the recruits sent into Dirlewanger's band were convicted of major crimes such as premeditated murder, rape, arson and burglary. Dirlewanger provided them with an opportunity to commit atrocities on such a scale that even the SS executioners complained.[5] Martin Windrow, the British historian, described them as a "terrifying rabble" of "cut-throats, renegades, sadistic morons, and cashiered rejects from other units". [/QUOTE]
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