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Because he wasn’t guilty of it, not in any provable way at least, and the whole trial was an epic, brutal, detestable mess. Joachim Peiper To understand the. Jun 15, 2017 Why Joachim Peiper Was Sentenced to Death. On July 16, 1946, at the former concentration camp at Dachau in Bavaria, Joachim Peiper was sentenced to death by hanging for his part in the deaths of 71 surrendered American soldiers at a crossroads near Malmedy, Belgium, on December 17, 1944.

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Joachim Peiper Nickname(s) Jochen Born ( 1915-01-30)30 January 1915, Died 14 July 1976 ( 1976-07-14) (aged 61), Buried St Anna's Church, Allegiance Service/ branch Years of service 1933–45 Rank SS #132,496 Unit Battles/wars Awards Other work and Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976), also known as Jochen Peiper. Peiper was a in the during and personal to between November 1940 and August 1941. Peiper fought on both the against the and the against the, and was awarded by the. Peiper was convicted of committed in and imprisoned for almost 12 years.

He was accused of war crimes in, but Italian and German courts concluded that there was insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. After his release from prison, Peiper worked for both and, before moving to France, where he translated books from English to German under the 'Rainer Buschmann'. Peiper was murdered in in July 1976. E tanks (with roadwheels) of the I SS Panzer Corps Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler close to (June 1944) The Allied necessitated the return of the LSSAH to the. On 17 June, the division began its move to the area of, but some parts of the panzer regiment had to stay in Belgium awaiting new tanks. The whole division did not reach its rally zone before 6 July 1944. On 28 June, the 1st SS Panzer Regiment of Peiper arrived at the front and was immediately engaged in combat.

As with the other German units of the area, they essentially fought a defensive battle until the at the end of July and beginning of August. Having gone to the front with 19,618 men, the LSSAH lost 25% of its men and all its tanks. As with most of the Waffen SS divisions engaged in, the LSSAH lost its operational ability and was described in the official tables of the available units prepared by the on 16 September 1944 not as a division but as a.

Peiper was not in command of his panzer regiment during the near. Suffering from a he had been discreetly evacuated to a military hospital in the area of at 70 km of the frontline. According to the official diagnosis, he was suffering from.

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He would eventually be dispatched to the rear and from September 1944 forward was in a military hospital near the in Upper Bavaria. This was not far from his family home. He stayed there until 7 October. Battle of the Bulge.

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The bodies of the, covered by snow, were found on 14 January 1945. During the 1st SS Panzer Division's advance on 17 December 1944, his armored units and halftracks confronted a lightly armed convoy of about 30 American vehicles at the Baugnez crossroads near. The troops, mainly elements of the American, were quickly overcome and captured.

Along with other American POWs previously captured, they were ordered to stand in a meadow when for unknown reasons the Germans opened fire on the prisoners with machine guns, killing 84 soldiers, and leaving the bodies in the snow. The survivors were able to reach American lines later that day, and their story spread rapidly throughout the American front lines. Chiavenato recursos humanos pdf. Author Richard Gallagher reported that during the briefing held before the operation, Peiper clearly stated that no quarter should be given nor prisoners taken and that no pity should be shown towards the Belgian civilians. However, Lieutenant Colonel Hal McCown, commander of the, testified about the treatment his unit was given after being captured on 21 December by Peiper's Kampfgruppe at Froidcour between La Gleize and.

McCown said he met Peiper in person and based on his observations, American prisoners were at no time mistreated by the SS and the food given to them was nearly as good as that used by the Germans themselves. Other murders.

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It seems to me, though it's a bit a similar type, there is only a rather distant similarity of the faces. Maybe, it's rather an officer of General Dietrich.

Furthermore, this man seems to have something at the right side of his neck, perhaps from an injury and pictures of Peiper always show another decoration beside the Iron Cross in this time. I remember a dicussion elsewhere on the web, where somebody discovered a film by Eva Brown on the terrace of the Berghof.

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There could be seen a man, writing a postcard. The writers agreed, that it was clear Peiper ( - I'd say, there was more similarity than on the picture - ) until someone revealed, that it was Hitler's physician 'Brandt'. The picture description mentions no name.

The Malmedy massacre trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al.) was held in May–July 1946 in the former Dachau concentration camp to try the GermanWaffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of December 17, 1944. The highest-ranking defendant was the former Waffen-SS general Sepp Dietrich.

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Malmedy massacre[edit]

The Malmedy massacre was a series of killings committed by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper, part of the 1st SS Panzer Division, against American prisoners of war and Belgian civilians during the Battle of the Bulge. Although the killing of over 80 American POWs near Baugnez was the primary subject of the eventual trial, it was only one of a series of war crimes committed by Kampfgruppe Peiper between mid-December 1944 and mid-January 1945.^[1] In total, over 750 POWs were murdered, mostly executed at close range by gunshots to the head (though the eventual U.S. Senate investigation would tally the official total at 362 POWs and 111 civilians).^[1]

Most of the testimony provided by the survivors stated that about 120 Americans from the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion (FAOB), were surprised by the German armored advance on Baugnez, and surrendered.^[2][3] They were then gathered in a field near the Baugnez crossroads, at which time the SS troops fired on their prisoners with machine guns.^[2][3] Several SS prisoners later testified that a few of the prisoners had tried to escape. Others claimed that a few of the prisoners had recovered their previously discarded weapons and fired on the German troops as they continued their progress toward Ligneuville.^[4][5] Of the 84 bodies recovered a month later, most showed wounds to the head, seemingly much more consistent with a deliberate massacre than with self-defense or with injuries inflicted on prisoners who were attempting to escape.^[6]

As soon as the SS machine gunners opened fire, the American POWs panicked. Some tried to flee, but most were shot where they stood. A few sought shelter in a café at the crossroads. The SS soldiers set fire to the building, and shot all who tried to escape the flames.^[3] Some in the field had dropped to the ground and pretended to be dead when the shooting began.^[3] However, SS troops walked among the bodies and shot any who appeared to be alive.^[3][4]

On January 13, 1945, American forces secured the areas where the killings occurred. The bodies were recovered on January 14 and January 15, 1945, with the cold weather preserving the evidence and keeping the bodies and their wounds mostly intact.^[7] The autopsies revealed that at least twenty of the victims had suffered fatal gunshot wounds to the head, inflicted at very close range.^[6] These were in addition to wounds made by automatic weapons. Another 20 showed evidence of small-calibre gunshot wounds to the head without powder-burn residue;^[6] 10 had fatal crushing or blunt-trauma injuries, most likely from rifle butts.^[6] Some bodies showed a single wound, in the temple or behind the ear.^[8] Most of the bodies were found in a very small area, suggesting the victims had been gathered just before they were killed.^[9]

Trial proceedings[edit]

The trial – Case Number 6-24 (US vs. Valentin Bersin et al.) – was one of the Dachau Trials, which took place from May 16, 1946 to July 16, 1946. The defendants appeared before a military court of senior American commissioned officers. The defendants were 73 former members of the Waffen-SS, mostly from the SS Division Leibstandarte. Highest in rank were SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich, commander of the 6th Panzer Army, his chief of staff, SS-Brigadeführer Fritz Krämer, SS-Gruppenführer Hermann Priess, commander of the I SS Panzer Corps and SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper, commander of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment - the core element of Kampfgruppe Peiper, which conducted the massacre.

The counts of indictment related to the massacre of more than three hundred American prisoners of war 'in the vicinity of Malmedy, Honsfeld, Büllingen, Ligneuville, Stoumont, La Gleize, Cheneux, Petit Thier, Trois Ponts, Stavelot, Wanne and Lutrebois', between December 16, 1944 and January 13, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge, as well as the massacre of about one hundred Belgian civilians in the vicinity of Stavelot.^[10] The defense was directed by Colonel Willis M. Everett Jr., a lawyer from Atlanta, assisted by other American and German lawyers. The prosecution was led by Colonel Burton L Ellis.

Six defendants, including Peiper, complained to the court that they had been victims of physical violence or threats of violence meant to force them to provide extrajudicial confessions.^[10] The defendants were invited to confirm the statements they had made under oath.^[10] Of the nine who testified, three had claimed mistreatment they had suffered.^[11] For most of the accused, the defense argued that they either had not participated, or had done so by obeying a superior's orders.^[7] The court ruled that all but one of the defendants were guilty in some degree. Forty-three were sentenced to death, including Peiper; the rest were sentenced to from ten years to life in prison. Dietrich received a life sentence and Priess 20 years imprisonment.

Verdicts[edit]

On July 16, 1946 the verdict was delivered on 73 members of the Kampfgruppe Peiper.

• 43 sentenced to death by hanging, including Peiper
• 22 sentenced to life imprisonment
• 2 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
• 1 sentenced to 15 years
• 5 sentenced to 10 years

Review procedure[edit]

Pursuant to procedure, an in-house review was undertaken by the American Occupation Army in Germany; the trial was carefully examined by a deputy judge. Taking into account doubts which surrounded the investigation phase, he issued in several cases recommendations of free pardon or commutation of the death sentences^{[further explanation needed]}, which were often followed by General Lucius Clay,^[when?] the Commander of the American zone in occupied Germany.^[7]

Other appeals[edit]

Colonel Everett was convinced that a fair trial had not been granted to the defendants: in addition to alleged mock trials, he claimed that 'to extort confessions, U.S. prosecution teams 'had kept the German defendants in dark, solitary confinement at near starvation rations up to six months; had applied various forms of torture, including the driving of burning matches under the prisoners' fingernails; had administered beatings which resulted in broken jaws and arms and permanently injured testicles'.'^[12]

Approximately sixteen months after the end of the trial, almost all the defendants presented affidavits repudiating their former confessions and alleging aggravated duress of all types.^[13]

The Simpson Commission[edit]

The turmoil raised by this case caused the Secretary of the Army, Kenneth Royall, to create a commission chaired by Judge Gordon A. Simpson of Texas to investigate. Apparently,^{[according to whom?]} the Commission was interested not only in the facts of the Malmedy massacre trial, but also had to deal with other cases judged by the International Military Tribunals in Europe.^{[example needed]}

The commission supported Everett's accusations regarding mock trials^[specify] and neither disputed nor denied his charges of torture of the defendants.^[12] The Commission expressed the opinion that the pre-trial investigation had not been properly conducted and that the members felt that no death sentence should be executed where such a doubt existed.^[14] One of the members of the commission, Judge Edward L. Van Roden of Pennsylvania, made several public statements alleging that physical violence had been inflicted on the accused.

All but two of the Germans in the 139 cases we investigated had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. This was standard operating procedure with our American investigators.^[15]

Furthermore, under his signature, an article denouncing the conditions under which the assumed guilt of Malmedy defendants and of other questionable cases was going to be published in February 1949 with the assistance of the National Council for Prevention of War.^[16] He refused to commute the six remaining death sentences, including Peiper's, but the executions were postponed.

The Senate subcommittee[edit]

Eventually, the United States Senate decided to investigate. Ultimately, the case was entrusted to the Committee on Armed Services over the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments. The investigation was entrusted to a subcommittee of three senators chaired by Raymond E. Baldwin. The subcommittee was set up on March 29, 1949. Its members went to Germany and during its hearings, the commission heard from no fewer than 108 witnesses.^{[citation needed]}

Joseph McCarthy had obtained from the subcommittee's chairman authorization to attend the hearings. McCarthy's state, Wisconsin, had a large population of German heritage, spurring allegations that McCarthy was politically motivated in his work on behalf of the Malmedy defendants.^[17] He used an aggressive questioning style during the proceedings.^[18] McCarthy's actions further inflamed a split between the American Legion, which took a hardline position after Malmedy and generally supported upholding the death sentences, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, who supported more lenient penalties for the Waffen-SS members under Peiper.^[19] The last clash took place in May 1949 when he asked that Lieutenant Perl to be given a lie detection test. Since this had been rejected by Baldwin, McCarthy left the session claiming that Baldwin was trying to whitewash the American military.^[20]

While on the one hand McCarthy was far from impartial, two of the members of the three-man subcommittee, the chairman Senator Raymond Baldwin and Senator Lester Hunt have been accused by historian David Oshinsky of being 'determined to exonerate the Army at all costs'.^[21] Oshinsky also alleges that the third member of the committee, Senator Estes Kefauver, displayed a lack of interest in the case, attending only two of the first fifteen hearings.^[22] McCarthy sought to denounce Baldwin in front of the whole Senate,^{[according to whom?]} but his efforts were repudiated by the Commission on Armed Forces, which clearly showed its support for Baldwin^[how?] and eventually adopted the report of the subcommittee.^{[citation needed]}

The subcommittee report[edit]

In its report, the subcommittee rejected the most serious charges, including beatings, torture, mock executions and starvation of the defendants.^{[page needed]} In addition, the subcommittee determined that commutations of sentences pronounced by General Clay had occurred because of the U.S. Army's recognition that procedural irregularities could have occurred during the trial.^{[page needed]} The commission did not exonerate the defendants or absolve them of guilt and it endorsed the conclusions General Clay issued in the particular case of Lieutenant Christ. In summary, Clay had written that 'he was personally convinced of the culpability of Lieutenant Christ and, that for this reason his death sentence was fully justified. But, to apply this sentence would be equivalent accepting a bad administration of justice, which led [him], not without reserve, to commute the death penalty to life imprisonment'.^[23]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abMalmedy massacre Investigation–Report of the Subcommittee of Committee on Armed Services. United States Senate Eighty-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. res. 42, Investigation of action of Army with Respect to Trial of Persons Responsible for the Massacre of American Soldiers, Battle of the Bulge, near Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944. 13 October 1949.
2. ^ ^abCole, Hugh M. (1965). 'Chapter V: The Sixth Panzer Army Attack'. The Ardennes. United States Army in World War II, The European Theater of Operations. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Chief of Military History.
3. ^ ^abcdeMacDonald, Charles (1984). A Time For Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge. Bantam Books. ISBN0-553-34226-6.
4. ^ ^abReynolds, Michael (February 2003). Massacre At Malmédy During the Battle of the Bulge. World War II Magazine. Archived from the original on 2007-03-07.
5. ^Wholesale Slaughter at Baugnez-lez-Malmedy, Willy D. AlenusArchived 2007-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ ^abcdGlass, MAJ Scott T. 'Mortuary Affairs Operations At Malmedy—Lessons Learned From A Historic Tragedy'.
7. ^ ^abc'Review and recommendation of the deputy judge advocate for war crimes, 20 October 1947'. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29.
8. ^Roger Martin, L'Affaire Peiper, Dagorno, 1994, p. 76
9. ^Glass, Lt Col Scott T. (1998-11-22). 'Mortuary Affairs Operations at Malmedy'. Centre de Recherches et d'Informations sur la Bataille des Ardennes. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
10. ^ ^abcWar Crimes Office (1948). 'Case Number 6-24 (US vs. Valentin Bersin et al.)'. U.S. Army Trial Reviews and Recommendations. United States Department of War. Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2006-12-18. This is a web transcription of microfilmed archives of the original US Army documents. See the site's introductionArchived 2006-12-19 at the Wayback Machine for more information. The URL is to a HTML frame, you must select 'US011' in the left pane to get to case '6-24'. The direct URL to the case page is hereArchived 2007-07-23 at the Wayback Machine.
11. ^Malmedy massacre Investigation – Report of the Subcommittee of Committee on armed services – United States Senate – Eighty-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. res. 42, Investigation of action of army with respect to trial of persons responsible for the massacre of American soldiers, battle of the Bulge, near Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944. October 13, 1949 p. 27
12. ^ ^abClemency, Time magazine, Jan. 17, 1949 (registration required).
13. ^Malmedy massacre Investigation, p. 4
14. ^Malmedy massacre Investigation, p. 28
15. ^Utley, Freda (1948), The High Cost of Vengeance(PDF), Chicago: Henry Regnery Companyp. 186 (From a speech to the Chester Pike Rotary Club on December 14, 1948)
16. ^American atrocities in Germany, by Judge Edward L. Van Roden, The Progressive, février 1949.
17. ^The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate, Robert Griffith, University of Massachusetts Press, 1987, p. 22
18. ^The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy, Fred J. Cook, Random House, 1971, p. 133
19. ^Bitburg in moral and political perspective, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Indiana University Press, 1986 at pp. 68-73.
20. ^The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy, cité ci-dessus, p. 133
21. ^'Throughout the hearings, McCarthy bullied witnesses, made scores of erroneous statements, exaggerated his evidence, and turned almost every session into a barroom brawl. At the same time, however, he demonstrated that Baldwin and Hunt were no more interested in an impartial investigation than he was. Their manners were better, their tone more subdued, but they were determined to exonerate the Army at all costs, just as Joe was determined to prove its culpability.' David M. Oshinsky 'A conspiracy so immense: the world of Joe McCarthy' pp. 76-77
22. ^David M. Oshinsky 'A conspiracy so immense: the world of Joe McCarthy' pp.76
23. ^Malmedy massacre Investigation, p. 31

Further reading[edit]

• Steven P. Remy, The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy (Harvard University Press, 2017), x, 342 pp.

External links[edit]

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• Dachau Trial, Review and Recommendations of the Deputy Judge Advocate, Jewish Virtual Library
• Malmedy Massacre Trial, Jewish Virtual Library
• 'Clemency', (Jan. 17, 1949), Time magazine(registration required)
• Utley, Freda, (November 1954) 'Malmedy and McCarthy', Printed in The American Mercury

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