The Russo-Japanese War saved him though he arrived at the front after Russia’s defeat. He was kicked out of two military academies. His voice, coming through the record, is “strident, sarcastic, vicious” says Palmer. Tall, athletic, unwilling to obey rules and do much studying despite his intelligence, he was a violent, impulsive child. Palmer drops the bully description but notes his classmates and instructors were terrorized by him. He has been called the sort of bully other bullies were afraid of. The Baron was a man of few admirable qualities.īorn in Austria in 1885, the Ungern-Sternberg spent his early life on a family estate in what is now Estonia but then part of the Russian Empire. Their property must be confiscated."Īnd there, for me, lies the fascination with the Baron – exponent of dark truths of civilizational survival but for a situation whose exigencies did not clearly make mercy inadmissible. 15 leaves no doubt as to what that “merciless hardness” consisted of for him: "Commissars, Communists, and Jews, together with their families, must be exterminated. Yet, being of a dark and pessimistic turn of mind, I wonder if we will, under some circumstance in the not-so-distant future, have to ponder its application.Īnd General Order No. Fury against the heads of the revolution, its devoted followers, must know no boundaries."Ĭhilling words, anathema to civilized values. Henceforth there can only be ‘truth and merciless hardness.’ The evil which has fallen upon the land, with the object of destroying the divine principle in the human soul, must be extirpated root and branch. It stated, among other things: "‘Truth and mercy’ are no longer admissible. It was actually the first order issued by the paperwork-averse man born Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg.) (Numbered “15” for superstitious reasons. In 1921, Baron Ungern-Sternberg, convinced by oracles that he had 130 days to live, issued, as the “Incarnated God of War, Khan of grateful Mongolia”, his notorious General Order 15.
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