Joachim Peiper was a German Schutzstaffel commander and a Nazi war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army prisoners of war. During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as pe
Peiper in the 1960s
The senior officers of the SS inspecting Nazi-occupied France: (left-right) SS General Sepp Dietrich, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and his adjutant, Joachim Peiper, at Metz, in September 1940.
The Spanish Head of State, Generalíssimo Francisco Franco, is host to the Third Reich officials Karl Wolff (lt.), Joachim Peiper (ctr.), and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler (rt.) in October 1940.
The Malmedy massacre trial was held in May–July 1946 in the former Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of 17 December 1944. The highest-ranki
Joachim Peiper
…Bulge, from which battles his eponymous battle group—Kampfgruppe Peiper—became notorious for committing war crimes against civilians and PoWs. In the Malmedy Massacre Trial, the US military tribunal established Peiper's command responsibility for the Malmedy massacre (1944) and sentenced him to death, a sentence later…
General Josiah Dalby (with head turned) presides over the Malmedy massacre trial at Dachau
The corpses of the U.S. soldiers murdered by the Waffen-SS in the Malmedy massacre were covered and preserved with snow until Allied forces recaptured the area in January 1945.
The Malmedy Massacre Trial: Waffen-SS Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper testifies through his interpreter about his participation in the Malmedy Massacre (1944).