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Andy Gregory Tuesday 17 December 2019 11:20 GMT Comments Joachim Peiper of the Waffen-SS, pictured wearing the Iron Cross awarded to him in 1940 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...
After the Allied breakthrough in Normandy, Hitler gambled everything on a final, daring counteroffensive: the Battle of the ...
The colorized photo of Joachim Peiper – a Nazi Waffen-SS officer whose unit was responsible for mowing down 84 Americans during the battle, in a war crime that became known as the Malmedy ...
A US Army unit said on Tuesday that they “regret” sharing a colorized photo of a Nazi war criminal on Facebook in an attempt to publicize the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge… ...
The photo, apparently of SS officer and war criminal Joachim Peiper, was posted on the official Facebook pages of the Department of Defense, the Army’s 10th Mountain Division, and the XVIII ...
In a tweet, the Airborne Corps added that Peiper was a "terrible person" but an "effective combat leader." "A teenager when Hitler come to power, Peiper joined the SS after serving as a member of ...
SS soldiers, led by Joachim Peiper, had marched them and fellow U.S. Soldiers out into a field, where Peiper tore up Geneva Convention cards that the medics among the prisoners carried ...
In reality, Peiper was captured and sentenced to death, at Eisenhower’s insistence, for his role in the Malmedy massacre. His sentence, however, was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was ...
Peiper, a high-ranking Nazi SS officer, had been sentenced to death by an Allied court for war crimes, but was later freed. He had lived in France for several years under an assumed name. “It is ...