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.

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 frontline combat -- 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.

Donation D. Lawrence