Splendid village, specificaly the last picture with civilian only
The rest it's what lot or european and fighting american and allies would call : bad taste ; SS Nazi in Russia with civilian villagers ! Worst with the title ... Peiper ...
IMHO
SS Peiper killed more than 100 american prisoners and 120 civilian prisoners during the Ardennes and sued for that as war criminal
But again it's a talented realisation
I can see where you are coming from, but does that mean we do no figures which were involved in war crimes? There was also a lot of suppressed evidence of Allied troops, British, Canadians and Americans committing crimes against prisoners. Such as,
Any Russian troops in Berlin Offensive, as there was widespread murder and rape during the battle.
US troops - The execution of Waffen-SS troops in a coal yard in Dachau or the Biscari massacre. Major-General Raymond Hufft (US Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners when they crossed the Rhine in 1945. "After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he admitted, 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg instead of them". Stephen Ambrose related: "I've interviewed well over 1000 combat veterans. Only one of them said he shot a prisoner ... Perhaps as many as one-third of the veterans ... however, related incidents in which they saw other GIs shooting unarmed German prisoners who had their hands up."
On Peiper you are correct, he was a war criminal, the last German war criminal released from the trials [except Hess], I have seen numbers in the Battle of the Bulge as high as 362 prisoners of war and 111 civilians. However Peiper was not in the locations when the actual massacres took place, but it can be argued these massacres took place on orders, but from whom these orders came from is the question? One thing that made it not so black and white was the treatment of American troops in La Gleize, they were not killed and treated, relative to the situation. In the aftermath of the Malmedy massacre, a written order from the HQ of the 328th US Army Infantry Regiment, dated 21 December 1944, stated: No SS troops or paratroopers will be taken prisoner but will be shot on sight.
For those interested in reading further I would recommend the following 3 books,
Bauserman. J.M. The Malmedy Massacre.
Schrijvers. P The Unknown Dead - Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge
George. D & Child. R The Lost Eleven
The Lost Eleven is a well written book about the Black troops murdered near Wereth from the 333rd Field Artillery Battalion by the SS. It is also a story of the time [post war] In 1949, a U.S. Senate subcommittee released an official report exhaustively detailing 12 similar massacres. Every last casualty was listed — but the Wereth 11, as they came to be known, were not mentioned. There is also the story of the Belgium's involved after the war to get a monument to the troops, with no help or support from the USA.
