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    Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army...
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  • Peiper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Allan Peiper (born 1960), Australian road cyclist and team manager Joachim Peiper (1915–1976)...
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    (1913–1945), Baltic-German Holocaust perpetrator Joachim Peiper (1915–1976), German war criminal and SS leader Joachim Rønneberg (1919–2018), member of the Gunnerside...
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    his life, Joachim Peiper settled in Traves, Haute-Saône, in eastern France. In 1976 a Communist historian obtained the file on Joachim Peiper from the...
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    Kampfgruppe Peiper was the armored spearhead of the left wing of the 6th SS Panzer Army, under the command of SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper. After...
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    and SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper, commander of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment – the principal unit of Kampfgruppe Peiper, who committed the massacre...
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    operation began, with then SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper's Kampfgruppe leading the push to the Meuse. Peiper was supposed to reach the Meuse River on the...
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  • were destroyed by artillery fire of the Waffen-SS under the command of Joachim Peiper. The massacre and destruction were reprisals for one German soldier...
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    Powers. Subordinated to I SS Panzer Corps was Kampfgruppe "Peiper", led by Joachim Peiper. Peiper's command was responsible for the Malmedy massacre, a war...
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    (PDF) from the original on 2 January 2016. Westemeier, Jens (2007). Joachim Peiper: A Biography of Himmler's SS Commander. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7643-2659-2...
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    of manpower and materiel. During the battle, SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper left a path of destruction, which included Waffen-SS soldiers under...
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    infantry divisions in three corps. SS-Obersturmbannführer Joachim Peiper led Kampfgruppe Peiper, consisting of 4,800 men and 600 vehicles, which was charged...
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    (2013). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit [Himmler's Warriors: Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS during the...
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    (2013). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit [Himmler's Warriors: Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS during the...
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  • ever been identified as the actual gunman. World War II German colonel Joachim Peiper (61), who led the troops responsible for the Malmédy massacre as a member...
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  • Waffen-SS lieutenant colonel Joachim Peiper. However, the fictional characters bore marked differences. For example, Peiper did not die in a kamikaze tank...
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    Gustav Knittel Alfried Krupp Hans Lammers Wilhelm List Erhard Milch Joachim Peiper Hermann Pister Oswald Pohl Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland Otto...
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    filled with more Americans and tanks. Only when SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper and his tanks arrived at midnight, twelve hours behind schedule, did...
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  • actor, music teacher, performer and composer (d. unknown) January 30 Joachim Peiper, German Waffen-SS officer (d. 1976) John Profumo, British politician...
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  • (2013). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit [Himmler's Warriors: Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS during the...
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    (2013). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit [Himmler's Warriors: Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS during the...
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  • 1943 the SS Panzer Regiment 1 was commanded by Joachim Peiper, of whom Kling was a personal favorite. Peiper consequently made Kling leader of the 2nd Battalion...
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  • ISBN 978-0-7643-0080-6. Westemeier, Jens (2014). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit (Krieg in der Geschichte ed...
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  • fictional officers in addition to real-world officers (i.e., Karl Bülowius, Joachim Peiper, and Anthony McAuliffe) are used in order to maintain a sense of historical...
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    (2013). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit [Himmler's Warriors: Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS during the...
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    German entourage, including close collaborators such as Karl Wolff and Joachim Peiper. On the morning of 19 October, the Nazi leader entered the country via...
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  • ISBN 978-1-44385-422-1. Westemeier, Jens (2014). Himmlers Krieger: Joachim Peiper und die Waffen-SS in Krieg und Nachkriegszeit (in German). Paderborn:...
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  • the Bundeswehr (MGFA at that time), where he undertook research on Joachim Peiper, the former adjutant of Heinrich Himmler. In 2009, Westermeier received...
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    include: Kampfgruppe Peiper was a mechanised brigade-sized formation formed under the command of SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper which took part in the...
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  • and assistant gunner to Hans Siptrott, serving in the Waffen-SS under Joachim Peiper. He was found guilty of War Crimes in the Malmedy Massacre during the...
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