Peiper was a senior Waffen-SS Officer, and Panzer Commander of the LSSAH 1st Panzer Division. By 1945, he was a SS-Standartenführer and the Waffen-SS’s youngest regimental colonel.
Peiper was a hero, such honourable and loyal men like him were rare . Peiper would be a worldwide hero and statues of him would adorn Military Museums if he had been wearing a different uniform. He remained unrepentant about his past in the elite Waffen-SS 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler.
Jochen Peiper was a Knight of the SS. The man was breathtakingly brave.
Thus Joachim Peiper undoubtedly owed his life to the rabble-rouser Senator from Wisconsin. Ultimately the sentences of the Malmedy defendants were commuted to life imprisonment and then to time served. Peiper’s sentence was. 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.
Sadly he was persecuted for the rest of his days. He was jailed after the war. He took his punishment like the honourable and stoic man he was.
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