Last known living member of Sturmbrigade SS-Dirlewanger Unterscharführer Ruppert Z (last name not revealed for family security).
He died last month in a village near Hannover at 95 years.
SS-Dirlewanger was infamous for burning women and children alive and feeding captives to starving dogs.
They very frequently engaged in mass rapes and large scale killings.
Sent to Sonderkommando Dirlewangers as a punishment from SS-Totenkopf in late 1942 Ruppert Z remained with the unit till March 1945.
Records show he was in Warsaw along with his unit which committed brutal massacres there.
In an interview with Spiegel in 2008, he praised Oskar Dirlewanger and said he always lead from the front and was never behind.
After remaining a POW till 1949, Ruppert worked as a Personnel Superintendent in a German port.
Unfortunately he was never prosecuted for war crimes despite efforts by Prosecution office and Polish gov't.
