Who murdered Joachim Peiper ? (1 Viewer)
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Desertkiwi
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He was a truly nasty piece of work. Looking forward to part 2.
Running-Buddy
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It's amazing that someone who was involved with murdering so many people was able to live free at all. He should have been executed for war crimes as his first sentence was passed. Still he was an amazing Officer but was just born and raised on the wrong side of the war. Thanks for posting the links, very interesting.
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Who could blame them too.
Says a great deal about his ego that he thought he could live out his days peacefully in a country he'd helped commit mass murder in.
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A few years ago i got a bit obsessed and read masses on Peiper, at one point breaking my record for a spend on a book, at £84. The Battle of the Bulge is one of my two WW2 passions, other is Normandy 1944.
My conclusion was he was a devout nazi, a true convert, huge ego. However, he was an outstanding military leader, very driven and he got results. I still find it incredible when he abandoned La Glaize and sneaked back to the German lines he never lost a man, i have heard figures of upto 800 men got out.
I feel he should have spent his life in prison or it should have been cut short, why it did not is interesting! I have read it was the situation politically and there were some powerful people who felt if something was to kick off between the West and Russia, then who better than to rearm and let off their leashes than the Germans and keeping their best commander alive might be useful.........After all the Allies, Britain, Russia and the USA, did turn a blind eye to the rocket specialists and they were not punished for their potential crimes because of their skills and knowledge.
Still read a lot on the Battle of the Bulge, some good and some not so, enjoyed and learnt from the recent books by Wenkin. H & Dujardin. C, could do with a better translation proof reader, made me smile when i got the book, The Battle of Saint-Vith and the Poteau Ambush, December 1944, as was looking forward to it, but they spelt Poteau wrong on the front, it had 2 t's. Interesting book despite that.
Hugh Cole is still the GOAT for me, but also great are Parker. D, Macdonald. C and Whiting.C. I want to point to a recent release, Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944, by Wynn. C. A truely terrible book, so many errors it made the Henry Fonda film [great action film] look like a documentry. A whole 4 book in the bibliography and throughtout he still referred to the infamous pictures of the Kaiserbaracke crossroads between St Vith and Malmedy as being Peiper, when for many years it is known it was Kampfgruppe Knittel. Plus hinted that it was not Peiper in the house who was killed and it was covered up by the Germans......utter tosh.
Think a new film or mini series on the battle would be excellent, telling the true story, from the defense of Bastogne, Malmedy and Wereth massacres and the toll it took on the civilian population, through the stories of the those small cut off adhoc units that gave their lives to slow the Germans down, those men who had the steel to make a stand with what they had to hand.
My conclusion was he was a devout nazi, a true convert, huge ego. However, he was an outstanding military leader, very driven and he got results. I still find it incredible when he abandoned La Glaize and sneaked back to the German lines he never lost a man, i have heard figures of upto 800 men got out.
I feel he should have spent his life in prison or it should have been cut short, why it did not is interesting! I have read it was the situation politically and there were some powerful people who felt if something was to kick off between the West and Russia, then who better than to rearm and let off their leashes than the Germans and keeping their best commander alive might be useful.........After all the Allies, Britain, Russia and the USA, did turn a blind eye to the rocket specialists and they were not punished for their potential crimes because of their skills and knowledge.
Still read a lot on the Battle of the Bulge, some good and some not so, enjoyed and learnt from the recent books by Wenkin. H & Dujardin. C, could do with a better translation proof reader, made me smile when i got the book, The Battle of Saint-Vith and the Poteau Ambush, December 1944, as was looking forward to it, but they spelt Poteau wrong on the front, it had 2 t's. Interesting book despite that.
Hugh Cole is still the GOAT for me, but also great are Parker. D, Macdonald. C and Whiting.C. I want to point to a recent release, Peiper and the Nazi Atrocities of 1944, by Wynn. C. A truely terrible book, so many errors it made the Henry Fonda film [great action film] look like a documentry. A whole 4 book in the bibliography and throughtout he still referred to the infamous pictures of the Kaiserbaracke crossroads between St Vith and Malmedy as being Peiper, when for many years it is known it was Kampfgruppe Knittel. Plus hinted that it was not Peiper in the house who was killed and it was covered up by the Germans......utter tosh.
Think a new film or mini series on the battle would be excellent, telling the true story, from the defense of Bastogne, Malmedy and Wereth massacres and the toll it took on the civilian population, through the stories of the those small cut off adhoc units that gave their lives to slow the Germans down, those men who had the steel to make a stand with what they had to hand.