Joachim Peiper Trial
Years after the Battle of the Bulge and the infamous Malmedy Massacre, Joachim Peiper died under mysterious circumstances in Traves, France. Malmedy Massacre Trial. Joachim Peiper, one of the accused in the Malmedy Massacre. Following the defeat of the German Army in World War II, the Judge.
Someone commented about will we ever be free of the third reich. Truth is no, are we free of the Roman Empire, Stalin, etc. Or any others for that matter over the last half of the 20th century. And now, what has happened in the beginning of the 21st century. There is all ready replacement for the reich as the new face of evil. They will be seen in the archives of history for what they truly are, enemies of humanity and god, and hopefully one day will meet their day of reckoning like the third reich and others have.
I’m old and may not see it happen, but it will come to pass. “Another willing Hitler victim” And I suppose the only ones capable of ruling their own mind and making a logical decision would be anyone who agrees with your enlightened mentality ^^ the arrogance of the left always surprises me.
Both sides committed war crimes. That includes the whiter than white Americans.
It is just that the victors write the histories and otganise the education system. It was the first crime William E. Jones had ever committed, which was probably why he could still remember it well so many years later. He and other soldiers in the 4th Infantry Division had captured a small hill. “It was pretty rough,” Jones later wrote, describing the bloody battle. At some point, the GIs lost all self-control.
As Jones wrote: “(The Germans) were baffled and they were crazy. There were quite a few of them still in their foxholes. Then I saw quite a few of them shot right in the foxholes.
We didn’t take prisoners and there was nothing to do but kill them, and we did, and I had never shot one like that. Even our lieutenant did and some of the non coms (non-commissioned officers).”. Peiper was definitely murdered – and none of us should go along with that.
French groups or somebody else? Reading the conemporary newspaper reports it seems that it was a case of ‘another ex-nazi is dead – nothing to see here’. Quite understandable, really. For his many war crimes and killings of civilians and soldiers during the war, he should have been hanged years earlier. In particular, the US authorities should have carried out the death sentence that they passed on him and his Waffen-SS comrades in the immediate aftermath of the war for the Malmedy massacres during the Ardennes offensive in 1944. In the interest of disseminating objective information and being “Politically Correct” I should like to educate the general public about the meaning of the term Neo Nazi: Nazi stands for “National Socialist Worker’s Party.” The National Socialist Worker’s Party is a center government controlled economic system used by the nazis on the left side of the economic spectrum and not the ‘alt-right’ or ‘right-wing extremists.’ This is just the radical left trying to redefine the term neo nazi to fit their own agenda. They are trying to pin it on the Republicans They are masters of deceit.
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It is another one of their brain washing techniques. The Nazis hated the capitalists and the communists. The term ‘Socialist” preceded by any prefix such as Neo-National Socialist, Democratic Socialist, etc. Are all on the left side of the economic spectrum with political overtones. May I suggest, to any of you doubting Thomases or Thomasines, that you take up an advanced course in Comparative Economics in your local University for the truth.
Event History On May 16, 1946 in Dachau, Germany, the trial of 74 SS members who had taken part in the Malmedy massacre began. All of the defendants were charged with violation of the laws and usages of war and with deliberately participating in the killing, shooting, and torturing of U.S. Soldiers and unarmed civilians. The prosecution's case was made up mainly of sworn statements from eyewitnesses, which the defense later claimed were forced to testify under duress. The defense's case rested on testimony from a few witnesses, mostly ex-SS men, including Colonel Joachim Peiper who had headed the division charged with the massacre. The most stunning defense witness was the American soldier Hal McCown, who testified that, as a prisoner of Peiper, he received fair treatment, as did the other American POWs, and that he never saw murdered Americans. Neither Peiper's nor McCown's testimony helped, however, as the seventy-three defendants (one had been released to French custody during the trial) were all found guilty on July 11.
On July 16, 1943, forty-three were sentenced to death by hanging (including Peiper) and twenty-two were sentenced to life in prison, with the rest receiving either ten, fifteen, or twenty year prison terms. Those associated with the case soon began to have their doubts about how the case was handled, however, specifically the eyewitness statements used by the prosecution.
Some also expressed concern that US soldiers had carried out similar acts without being punished. One year after the trial ended, an Army office carried out a review of the trial and made large changes in the original sentences. Although no prisoner was released, twenty-five of the forty-three death sentences were reduced to life imprisonment, seventeen defendants had their life sentences reduced and those with shorter prison terms had them made even shorter. Many of these changes were made, the reviewing body said, because of the youthfulness of the defendants at the time.
The charges with these changes were also reviewed a year later by the War Crimes Review Board, which, after declaring the pre-trial investigation flawed and saying the court had favored the prosecution, recommended to a higher body a further reducing of sentences. This higher body, the Military Governor of the American Zone, took some of the Review Board's suggestions into account, and its changes led to thirteen defendants being freed, and only twelve still facing execution. Still later, the Governor reduced the number sentenced to death to 6. As the end of the Malmedy affair approached, American military authorities reduced to life imprisonment the death sentences for the 6 remaining defendants. Biography Colonel Joachim Peiper (b. 1/30/15) was a senior Waffen-SS officer.
He commanded several Panzer campaigns during the war. Arrested after the war, he was indicted for his role in the Malmedy massacres of American POWs and Belgium civilians during the Battle of the Bulge. Peiper was sentenced to death by hanging. However, this sentence was later commuted, and Peiper was released at the end of December 1956, having served 11 and a half years. After his release, Peiper moved to France and worked as a translator. Twenty years later, on July 14, 1976, a group of Frenchmen threw a firebomb into his house killing Peiper. These additional online resources from the U.S.
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