In Popular Culture
A fictional character inspired by Dirlwanger is featured in the 1985 Soviet war drama film Come and See (the SS commander with a small primate based on Dirlwanger's exotic pet as described by Johannes Frießner and Ales Adamovich), loosely based on Dirlewanger's massacre of the village Khatyn in Belarus in 1943. His unit is featured in the 2009 video game Velvet Assassin. A character of "SS-Standartenführer Dirlewanger" will be played by Tom Savini in the upcoming horror film The 4th Reich.
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