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Joachim Peiper was born on 30 January 1915 in Wilmersdorf, a district of Berlin, part of the German Empire. He was the third son of a middle-class family from German Silesia. His father, Woldemar Peiper, had served as an officer in the Imperial German Army and fought in the 1904 campaign in German South West Africa. [3]
The Malmedy Massacre Trial: Waffen-SS Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper testifies through his interpretress about his participation in the Malmedy Massacre (1944). The trial of US vs. Valentin Bersin et al., Case Number 6-24 (May–July 1946), was one of the Dachau Trials that were held from 1945 to 1947.
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In 1949, a US Senate investigation concluded that in the thirty-six-day Battle of the Bulge the soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper murdered between 538 and 749 U.S. POWs, [13] other investigations claimed that the Waffen-SS killed fewer U.S. POWs, and put the figure of the dead as being between 300 and 375 US soldiers and 111 civilians executed by ...
Joachim Peiper, commander of the division's 1st SS Panzer Regiment The II SS Panzer Corps was moved north to Belgorod in preparation for the upcoming summer offensive Operation Citadel . The LSSAH, along with the SS Divisions Totenkopf and Das Reich, was to form the spearhead of General Hermann Hoth 's 4th Panzer Army , tasked with breaching ...
The event took place following the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943. Twenty-three Italian civilians were killed and several hundred houses were destroyed by artillery fire of the Waffen-SS under the command of Joachim Peiper. The massacre and destruction were reprisals for one German soldier having been killed and two German NCOs having ...
Battle of Lanzerath Ridge Part of the Battle of the Bulge during World War II 117th Infantry North Carolina National Guard at St. Vith Date December 16–17, 1944 Location Near Lanzerath, Belgium 50°21′34″N 6°19′45″E / 50.359487°N 6.329241°E / 50.359487; 6.329241 Result See aftermath Belligerents Germany United States Commanders and leaders Josef Dietrich I.G. von ...
1) Jochen Peiper: Commander, Panzerregiment Leibstandarte by Patrick Agte 2) KAMPFGRUPPE PEIPER: The Race for the Meuse by David Cooke 3) Jochen Peiper: Battle Commander, SS Leibstandardte Adolf Hitler by Charles Whiting (The photo is from the same series of images taken in Austria)