The actor Charles Durning was among those loaded off the truck by the ss. He had not yet put on the bulk he was noted for in later life. He said he was about 140 pounds and could run well. He took off for the nearby woods. A couple of German soldiers half-assed fired at him and missed. He survived Malmedy, but spend 30 years in therapy.
After Malmedy the SS were seldom allowed to surrender by GI's, strangely enough they were always shot trying to escape, the GI's did take German Regular army prisoners just not the SS.
My uncle was in Patton's 3rd Army relieving Bastogne. He told me in the 1970's that, when word got around of the Malmedy Massacre, some US units would not accept surrender of SS troops-they took them out in the woods and shot them. Regular Wehrmacht troops who surrendered were treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. How often summary judgement happened is anybody's guess, but it was bad enough so that General Eisenhower had to issue an order promising arrest and court martial for any US troops suspected of it. That put it to an end, but not before many SS troops paid the ultimate price. The SS had a reputation for shooting prisoners long before Malmedy, that was just the final straw for Allied troops.
My uncle was a tank commander in Patton’s 3rd Army. I mentioned one time about how the SS treated American POWs. All he said was “We were no angels either.” He never elaborated, but it was pretty clear what he meant.
My grandfather also served in the bulge. He was In Patons 10 armored division. The airborne divisions always got the glory for that battle which left my grandpa with some choice words for the 101st. But in the end he loved them all.
Allied soldiers are also responsible for barbaric war crimes in Europe and Japan..... Rape of women and murder of Japanese POWs was the order of the day in Guadalcanal and Okinawa, among others. Tokyo itself was reduced to ashes.... Hundreds of thousands perished at the hands of the Americans. And in Europe, US marines murdered Waffen SS soldiers who had been taken prisoner in Lippach. They also raped the women in the town.... Then, of course, the British bombing of Dresden where thousands of innocent civilians were incinerated in a single night....
@@leonardolupini3484 you understand that both Germany and Japan declared total war. These countries demanded that their citizens fight to the death to kill as many allies as they could before they died. It was Hitler and the emperor of Japan who killed their citizens not us. Just stop the sick bullshit already. The blame lies squarely in the laps of the axis powers. It was impossible to murder a waffen ss member btw. They earned their fate. It's was a matter of delivery that mattered.
My uncle was a US WWII combat veteran who fought in Europe. He landed in southern France in mid-August 1944 and was in Salzburg, Austria at the end of the war. One time he and I had a discussion about the treatment of POW's during the war. He said that the Germans had killed US prisoners but that the Americans had done it to the Germans first. He also told me that during training he was told that if they ever did anything like that they should keep quiet about it and never tell anyone what they did.
I find that hard to belive. Watching what little coverage was given to the defendents it is abvious that they knew they were no danger of ever being punish.
@@alicesresturantm I think maybe you are under the false impression that my uncle was a German soldier. Actually he was in the US Army. So he was admitting to me that the Americans were shooting German POW's before the Germans started shooting American POW's. Note that I edited my original post to make it clear that my uncle was a US soldier.
The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II. It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed Italian and 2 German prisoners-of-war at the Regia Aeronautica's 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.
Truth is always on the side of the winners and later being told the way it suits/serves them well. There is a story in the series of Band of Brothers where lt. Speirs allegedly mowed down german soldiers with gunfire after giving them cigarettes. I think the truth is that none of the fighting sides were any better than the other when it came to human values. It was especially true on the eastern front where civilians were treated like animals by the russians and no-one dared to explore it further after the war. My grandfather told us that he'd rather had a company of thousand german soldiers than a single russian as they preyed on women and goods and were behaving like animals. We suffered from the consequences long after the war. There is an ancient greek proverb that seems to be true: In times of war Muses fall silent. Peace Brothers (in arms) 🤟
Americans committed massacre's first! First at Biscari in Italy and than shortly after the Normandy Landings 30 regular German soldiers were massacred at Audouville-la-Hubert, France! Many other German POW's were killed during and after Normandy!
The malmedy trial requires its own episode. Part/most of the problem became that, if you were to convict SS of not taking prisoners, then Allied decisions, such as not to take german prisoners in the opening/airborne phase of D-day invasion, and reprisal shooting of German prisoners during battle of France, etc., would become an issue (even congressmen got involved). So, the trial eventually ended with a whimper. If one believes Peiper ordered the civilians & military executed--and it's hard to believe the combat commander was "out of the loop" (esp in SS) in so many separate instances--then one would probably believe justice/retribution was meted out on 14. Aug.1976. Never quite fathomed why Peiper thought he might quietly retire to France in peace...
Of course EVERYBODY in Malmedy know this ! It's such a small town ! And of course bad communication did occure as it always does during a war where things are always messy. For a long time the Americans pretended that the German bombarded Malmedy but the local population has always been skeptical about it since Malmedy was never really a German target. They never attacked it on the ground. They simply circumvented it. Their objective was much farther. We now know that NO German airplanes bombarded anything in the area ! But the 9th Air Force records correspond perfectly (B-26 bombers) with the timing of these events. What bother people here is that there was a real effort from the US to hide this sad event. The propaganda of the time obviously really wanted to exploit to the maximum the massacre of 84 American solidiers a few miles away. And nothing was ever said of the bombardment of Malmedy itself to this day ! Many Belgian civilians were assassinated for no reasons by the SS in different places of the countryside : 4 here, 6 there, 17 in another place, etc. But those numbers pale compared to the numbers of killed in Malmedy town itself which at that time housed a lot of civilian refugees. The town recorded the death of 252 civilians whose names were known and they are listed on the memorial. These were mostly locals. But the number was higher. After January 1945 many bodies were send to other small towns and villages where their families burried them locally and they are not counted in this total. The local authorities estimated that they were an equal number of people severely wounded and the medics were completely overwelmed ! Since the US forces in Malmedy was about equal in numbers to the civilians it is estimated that the American losses must have been more or less the same though the US Army never even acknowledged such losses. The US medics were so busy tending their own military casualties that they could barely take care of the civilians. There was a complete shortage of medicins and medical equipment. Since so many houses had been destroyed the wounded were kept lying in open air in the streets and tented there on the pavement despite the cold weather. We will never know the exact figure... 500 for the Belgian population and 500 for the Americans is of course a rounded estimation of the casualties (deads or severely wounded, amputees, etc. ) but it is not an exagerated number. The Belgian people paid and build a memorial for the US soldiers killed in Baugnez... where each year Americans visiting the area always stop to pay respect... but a similar memorial in Malmedy town was denied by the American authorities ! So the Belgian locals feel like it's a bit of a "masquerade", a big "show". Hope you understand my English.
Related to this is the American bombing campaign in France before dday killed more french civilians than the Germans did the whole time they were there. The mass killing of civilians is usually covered up to boost morale but it is often known anyway
@@louisbarraud7853 The USAAF and RAF bomber command raids on Caen inflicted terrible casualties upon the civilian population as well as reducing the city to rubble which provided the German defenders with a wealth of cover,the raid ultimately did not contribute to the allied advance,indeed it hindered it and caused many more allied casualties than if the city had not been bombed.
I am curious as to why most of the stories about the malmedy massacre do not contain any information about the survivors one of them I actually met a few years ago at a gun show when he was selling his book so there were survivors and I think their stories are interesting and should not be ignored in the narrative
Source for my previous comment ? The best of all ! My family lived in the area. No book has ever reported on this ! Tha war ended on May 8th 1945 and in July my father, 15 years old, was helping to clean up the rubbles in Malmedy. I still have a photo of him doing so with the local population. In the late 80's when the maire of the town erected a monument for the Belgian civilians killed in Malmedy he was also going to build a memorial for the dead US soldiers... till the US embassy forcefully blocked the project ! ;-)
My wife's uncle Grover was a runner from the 80th Division and attached to Company B of the 285th Forward Observation Battalion and was captured by Kampfgruppe Peiper. They were taken to the Baugnez crossroads and mowed down by Peiper's men. Despite being shot in the head, uncle Grover survived the Malmedy massacre and helped get the survivors back to the American lines because he was a runner and knew where the lines were. They made a makeshift stretcher for him as he was unable to walk with the head wound. RIP uncle Grover. Joachim Peiper got his just reward and I'm sure he's serving his sentence in hell. Cheers from eastern TN
This is literally not even what occurred. Piper was already ahead and never gave any order for this. He was released after the exhaustive trial. The massacre was a result of one tank driver (Felps) firing a pistol shot. Witnesses disagree why but apparently as a way to scare the prisoners. This unfortunately set a chain reaction in motion of prisoners becoming justifiably agitated and moving around. When some near the back started fleeing, the Germans began firing on what they perceived to be escaping prisoners. The rest is as described. Since the prosecution could never prove any premeditated orders for murder, most of the accused had to be acquitted or sentences overturned. The full trial transcripts are easily available online.
Prior to becoming a regimental commander of the 1st SS-Panzer Division 'LSSAH', Peiper was Reichsführer-SS Himmler's personal adjutant from 1939 until the summer of 1941 during 'Operation Barbarossa'.
My Dad was a combat infantryman, fought in the Bulge, the Hurtgen Forest, and crossed the Rhine at the Remagen bridge shortly after its capture. I once mentioned to him about Malmedy and Stavelot and he simply shook his head and said something to the effect that, "The Germans there were shock troops and had to keep moving and really couldn't afford to take prisoners. You know, we did things like that, too." He didn't elaborate and that was the end of our conversation. He never talked about it again but I always felt that he got to look over the edge into Hell and it haunted him the rest of his days. He probably had what is now PTSD but then it was simply something WW II vets bore alone, may Almighty God rest his soul. Great video, BTW.
It happens on both sides. I had a friend who was in the 9th U.S. ID. He told me of men he knew that outright shot German prisoners. He told me shot a German medic during the battle of the bulge. There was a group of germans rushing their position. He was just shooting and he seen this one German who had a great big red cross on white cloth across his chest he said it looked like a great big bullseye so he shot at it. He didn't even realize what he had done until afterwards. He was a youngster scared, in combat and just did it. He told me it bothered him his whole life.
Ernest Hemmingway who was assigned as a war reporter, admitted to a friend in a letter that he had murdered over 100 German POW´s, during interrogations. To this day this sob is feted as a ¨great man¨ by many.
Combat is crazy but still pulling the trigger is a willful action. Taking prisoners slow down a lot a unit's movement, so wrong choices are made very easily. Each life taken we have to explain to Jesus Christ, the Judge one day. War is TERRIBLE
@@gerardfrederick5504 You don't know much about Hemingway do you? The guy was notorious for exaggerating and including bits of facts interspersed with fanciful exaggeration. He knew he had to stay relevant. He often wrote in those letters you reference that parts of the letters were not true. But I guess if I say that I have a captured ET UFO in my garage that means it's true...because, you know, by your logic, I said it, therefore it must be true.
And what about Chenogne massacre? It was a war crime committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, on January 1, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge. According to eyewitness accounts, an estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors: the prisoners were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns. It was one of several war crimes which were committed during the Battle of the Bulge by members of BOTH Allied and Axis forces.
The american prisoners who were wounded after the shooting were killed by the germans,they had a gunshot wound in the neck.This was certainly without doubt a warcrime.Also Belgian civilians were murdered what was the reason?
@@pieterzwaan4451 I’m not saying Malmedy wasn’t a war crime. I am just pointing out that the Americans did exactly the same in return, killing German POW’s.
@@factsdontcareaboutyourfeel7204 I am sure the killings of the Germans was fueled by revenge from the Americans. But who knows it happens? Was there any investigation and was anyone held accountable? Nope. The Malmedy massacre is very well known and much was written about it. But the American reprisal killings that claimed the lives of at least the same number of German POWS is hardly known at all.
@@TheUntoldPast thousands of Polish officers and doctors and others were gunned down by the Soviets. Also they tried to blame the Germans for it. Makes you wonder
Good idea... War is barbaric, and even the victors participated in the barbarism.... The yanks were indeed guilty of many atrocities of murder and rape, in Europe and in Japan.
you may also want to look at Oradour sur Glane, another village burnt to the ground and all its villagers massacred during WW2, what made it worse is that the target was Oradour sur Vayres another town about 20 minutes away, where the SS believed one of their own was being held captive, the town today is still as it was on that day and now serves as a memorial to those lost and a reminder of the tragic consequences of War
There was a guy in my local area Carl Daub was a survivor of the massacre. He later killed his wife because of the masscre. This happened in 1988. I remember it being on America's Most Wanted. He dissappered and was declared legally dead in the 90's.
The Biscari Massarce happened in Italy when the US 45th Infantry murdered 73 Italian and 2 German soldiers, this happened a year and half before Malmedy! Shortly after the D- Day Invasion in the village of Audouville-la-Hubert, France. US Paratroopers murdered 30 regular German Army POW's. This happened 6 months before Malmedy! After the Malmedy Massarce At least 6 known massarce's of German soldiers took place the worst being the Chenogne massacre when 80 German surrendered soldiers were executed by the US 11th Armored Division!
For once, the Germans appear to have gotten an unfair rap on the Malmedy massacre. What apparently happened was that, while the Americans were grouped up in front of the Germans guarding them with machine guns, some of the prisoners in the back started running. The machine guns opened fire on them. This then panicked the entire group and they all started running. Then machine guns opened up on everybody. It was a massacre, but it wasn't intended. The US military was happy to later hype it to discourage surrending.
@@bullhead900 How do you know that? The transcripts of the trial are readily available for those who are searching for the facts instead of believing the media.
The biggest 'problem' regarding the My Lai Massacre was that there were innumerable other massacres in Vietnam by Americans that have received little or no coverage then or now.
A lot of the soldiers captured were black. Was this the reason for the Massacre, as it happened to French troops from Africa in 1940. It was also common practice on the eastern front with the captured Soviet troops.
Were black troops regularly treated badly by the Germans? I know they looked down on them due to their "Aryan master race" beliefs, but I haven't heard the full story.
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Excellent point. Someone needs to tell that to President Brandon. 13 service members killed and 100’s of American’s left behind. FJB has been a complete failure since day one.
Would be interested if you could do an episode on atrocities committed by the allies, or presumably they've been covered up ( history written by the winners). Amazed these got away with it! Interesting video, thank you as always 👍🏻👍🏻
Yes, the old excuse by Nazi sympatheizers. History is written by the winners". Yes some atrocities were commited by allied soldiers, often in retaliation for German atrocities like the murder of 80 POWs in the Chenogne massacre in Chenogne, Belgium on January 1, 1945, commited by the Americans in retaliation for the Malmedy Massacre by the SS on December 17th, 1944: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenogne_massacre Or the 30 Dachau Concentration Camp guards murdered by American troops en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals So yes the Western Allies's hands are not spotless, but anything what the Western Allies did is not even on the same planet compared to what the Germans (and Japanese) did, especially on the Eastern Front. And that is not even including the Holocaust. So no moral equivalency or history is written by the winners nonsense. You have to look to the Soviets for that.
@@arrow1414 Thanks for your detailed reply. I was just curious if there were any reports or trials, suspected there was but wasn't aware of any ( thus the "history written by the winners" - I'm certainly not a nwzi apologist or supporter in any way!) . Appreciate you took the time to answer my question, Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
It would seem likely that even the US would have covered up the Malmedy Massacre when it occurred. Those commanders that did know issued some rash orders (No SS personnel to be taken alive) which has to be countermanded. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, to avoid reprisal actions by the enemy. Hitler didn't give a crap about that it seems. The second, more important thing is, you want the enemy to not fight to the death, which is what happens when chances are you're going to get killed anyway. It took a while, and there is debate on whether it ever took with the Japanese. Also, you notice most national governments take great steps to avoid it (like Iraq in Desert Storm). ISIS doesn't give a crap about that.
My father's generation, and he didn't talk about his painful experiences as a five year three month infantryman in Africa and Italy. He had vivid nightmares for years after demob' including reliving hand-to-hand combat and attempting to strangle my sleeping mother next to him. War has traumatized hundreds of millions, and the decision to enter a war should not be made lightly. Imagine having your face and hands melted off, and living with that. "I ain't no senator's son...."
My parents lived through WW2,, my late father in law served in WW2 & he has told me a couple of stories along with my mother's German Jewish friend who was the same age as my mother she lived downstairs from us in are apartment building back in the late 70s and she told us some horror story's and even showed us the numbers tattooed on her arm, her parents were killed,, how she survived we never asked , knowing she was traumatized enough.
Peiper was there and at many other Massacres he even took part in the Murder of Children in Russia personally strangling them or using a bayonet. Why he was never hanged I cannot find a reason, probably used by the Americans after the War .
Sad, this is really sad, but that’s how gutless the US and English justice system was and still is today, another example of how gutless the US justice system, research Unit 731, and you will want to throw up.
Calley spiers could also be included In the category the katyn massacre as well Maybe the knights of bushido had the right code no surrender Also gurkhas fight to the death etc!
Part of the reason why so many SS, Nazi, Eisatzgruppen etc. got light sentences is because if we punished the Germans too harshly, we might have had a repeat of post WW1 Germany. Where deep resentment festered. Therefore many - not all - of the perpetrators of horrific crimes like the one described in this video got short sentences. They had to answer to God when they died though.
During World War I the Germans did not commit so many crimes but we're harsh too much on them but in World War I I thing were different they had already killed six million Jews in death camps and killed four million non Jews Polish people the y massacred 20 million Russians civilians in four years of occupation Things were different they HAD TO ACCEPT whatever punishment saw fit to give them and if they didn't like what the Allies were doing well they could have let Germany in Russian hands to o hell with their resentment they had to do what they were told and acc es pt all the executions this Nazi human trash had to die for what they did Damm it Allies were weak in that respect
What do you mean nothing was done? Anything happens at war ...War takes no prisoners.Also the British and the Americans did the same with the most of German prisoners they took but nobody talks about that because "GERMANS THE BAD GUYS".
In the current reporting on the course of the Battle of the Bulge, one important point is missing: the war crimes committed by the Americans. For the Eifel, the "Holzheim Massacre" is worth mentioning. Here, on 29 January 1945, ten German soldiers who were already prisoners of war were gunned down by US soldiers. Only one of the ten survived, as he was only grazed and played dead for hours. This survivor, Josef Peters from Bad Salzuflen, later reported this incident; this act was called the "Holzheim Massacre" in the book "The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge" by Peter Schrijvers. If the execution of black GI's in Wereth is worthy of a memorial, then there should at least be a memorial plaque or stumbling stones or the like in Holzheim to commemorate this execution of Wehrmacht soldiers.
Malmedy seems to be a sand grain in comparison to what Peiper had done in the Eastern front (Taganrog, Yefremovka, etc.). So I feel it was some kind of justice in his awful death.
It is a sad fact that in contrast with Japanese trials, few German war criminals were executed from the armed forces, though in Europe 27 Million people were murdered by SS and army troops.
Canadians at the Abbey, Americans at Malmedy, entire civilian town of Oradour sur Glane, Lidice as well... there’s some sort of similar patterns of common animalistic brutality and violation, but i just can’t put my middle finger on it. Not nearly enough justice was meted out, and that’s not even touching the “scott free” that happened for most Japanese committed atrocities
I have read different books about the Battle of the Bulge and have seen documentaries as well. Peiper insisted he never gave the order to kill the prisoners. However he told the men who were guarding the Americans that they would hamper the movements of his group. And he would lose men if they needed to be brought back to German camps. So the Germans at the scene interpreted his comments to dispose of the prisoners. We do know of Peipers scorched Earth tactics on the Eastern Front. His column was seriously behind on the timetable set. So surely he was frustrated. And I'm sure his subordinate officers were also frustrated.
Testimony at the trial as to what orders the armored spearhead had was actually quite specific and clear. They were to leave surrendering soldiers behind to be picked up by the following infantry. The rest is speculation.
They got his ass. Joachim Pieper. They let five or ten years go by and let him get comfortable thinking he got away with it. They tied him up, soaked his house in petrol and burned him alive. Some say it was the former soldiers but we’ll never truly know…
Peiper was sentenced to death during war crimes trials. His sentence was commuted to life because he was tortured by US troops who captured him. His sentence was commuted again to time-served because beat of a trial technicality. He was burned to death in his home in the mid-70’s in France when the French learned of his past and residence. He shared our oxygen for way too long.
At the start of the war some british soldiers were marched to a shed by german ss when a british officer try to ask a ss officer he was shot dead and those in side the shed were fired at and grenades thrown inside there was one servivour who managed to escape
This piece of history has been done over and over, and no one ever gets it right. How about covering the killing of German prisoners which was common place since Normandy. Crack open some books and showcase that. I can show ya 1000 just from memory. R
Why don't you talk about in one of your videos about the 82nd airborne Division easy company that murdered over 3,000 German pows in violation of the Geneva convention also why don't you cover about the United States Army Air corps murdering Japanese civilians and the the first atomic bomb when they murdered pregnant women babies children civilians in Japan I Don't see you talking about this
I don't say they we're angels but the us army and the britisch and friends killed enough SS who we're captured or surrendered.the french general Leclerc even let people excecuted from thé division Charlemagne because they we're from alsace
The actor Charles Durning was among those loaded off the truck by the ss. He had not yet put on the bulk he was noted for in later life. He said he was about 140 pounds and could run well. He took off for the nearby woods. A couple of German soldiers half-assed fired at him and missed. He survived Malmedy, but spend 30 years in therapy.
Makes you wonder if they intended to let him go. But Id never live that fucking day down
A good actor, paid well in therapy on permanent holiday.
@@soulie2001 stories like this were common place in ww2
After Malmedy the SS were seldom allowed to surrender by GI's, strangely enough they were always shot trying to escape, the GI's did take German Regular army prisoners just not the SS.
I heard from WW2 Army veterans. SS were always shot.
My uncle was in Patton's 3rd Army relieving Bastogne. He told me in the 1970's that, when word got around of the Malmedy Massacre, some US units would not accept surrender of SS troops-they took them out in the woods and shot them. Regular Wehrmacht troops who surrendered were treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. How often summary judgement happened is anybody's guess, but it was bad enough so that General Eisenhower had to issue an order promising arrest and court martial for any US troops suspected of it. That put it to an end, but not before many SS troops paid the ultimate price. The SS had a reputation for shooting prisoners long before Malmedy, that was just the final straw for Allied troops.
Funny as the allies called it a massacre but they just lost in combat.
My uncle was a tank commander in Patton’s 3rd Army. I mentioned one time about how the SS treated American POWs. All he said was “We were no angels either.” He never elaborated, but it was pretty clear what he meant.
My grandfather also served in the bulge. He was In Patons 10 armored division. The airborne divisions always got the glory for that battle which left my grandpa with some choice words for the 101st. But in the end he loved them all.
Allied soldiers are also responsible for barbaric war crimes in Europe and Japan..... Rape of women and murder of Japanese POWs was the order of the day in Guadalcanal and Okinawa, among others. Tokyo itself was reduced to ashes.... Hundreds of thousands perished at the hands of the Americans. And in Europe, US marines murdered Waffen SS soldiers who had been taken prisoner in Lippach. They also raped the women in the town.... Then, of course, the British bombing of Dresden where thousands of innocent civilians were incinerated in a single night....
@@leonardolupini3484 you understand that both Germany and Japan declared total war. These countries demanded that their citizens fight to the death to kill as many allies as they could before they died. It was Hitler and the emperor of Japan who killed their citizens not us. Just stop the sick bullshit already. The blame lies squarely in the laps of the axis powers. It was impossible to murder a waffen ss member btw. They earned their fate. It's was a matter of delivery that mattered.
@@leonardolupini3484 it’s all horrible, but none of this would have happened if the Germans hadn’t started this.
@@andyboog2010 No, read your history again, war was declared on Germany by France and England.
My uncle was a US WWII combat veteran who fought in Europe. He landed in southern France in mid-August 1944 and was in Salzburg, Austria at the end of the war. One time he and I had a discussion about the treatment of POW's during the war. He said that the Germans had killed US prisoners but that the Americans had done it to the Germans first. He also told me that during training he was told that if they ever did anything like that they should keep quiet about it and never tell anyone what they did.
I find that hard to belive. Watching what little coverage was given to the defendents it is abvious that they knew they were no danger of ever being punish.
@@alicesresturantm I think maybe you are under the false impression that my uncle was a German soldier. Actually he was in the US Army. So he was admitting to me that the Americans were shooting German POW's before the Germans started shooting American POW's. Note that I edited my original post to make it clear that my uncle was a US soldier.
The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II. It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed Italian and 2 German prisoners-of-war at the Regia Aeronautica's 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.
Truth is always on the side of the winners and later being told the way it suits/serves them well.
There is a story in the series of Band of Brothers where lt. Speirs allegedly mowed down german soldiers with gunfire after giving them cigarettes.
I think the truth is that none of the fighting sides were any better than the other when it came to human values.
It was especially true on the eastern front where civilians were treated like animals by the russians and no-one dared to explore it further after the war.
My grandfather told us that he'd rather had a company of thousand german soldiers than a single russian as they preyed on women and goods and were behaving like animals. We suffered from the consequences long after the war.
There is an ancient greek proverb that seems to be true: In times of war Muses fall silent.
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Americans committed massacre's first! First at Biscari in Italy and than shortly after the Normandy Landings 30 regular German soldiers were massacred at Audouville-la-Hubert, France! Many other German POW's were killed during and after Normandy!
The punishment against war criminal Joachim Pepper came in 1976...justice at the end.. Great Channel by the way
Piper wasn't executed I think he moved to France after the war and the people found out about him and burned him alive in his house
Correct! Some frenchmen with memory did that. A beautiful end!
Bastille day 1976!
I think he was shot in France but you might be right
Sounds about right for him.
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The malmedy trial requires its own episode. Part/most of the problem became that, if you were to convict SS of not taking prisoners, then Allied decisions, such as not to take german prisoners in the opening/airborne phase of D-day invasion, and reprisal shooting of German prisoners during battle of France, etc., would become an issue (even congressmen got involved). So, the trial eventually ended with a whimper. If one believes Peiper ordered the civilians & military executed--and it's hard to believe the combat commander was "out of the loop" (esp in SS) in so many separate instances--then one would probably believe justice/retribution was meted out on 14. Aug.1976.
Never quite fathomed why Peiper thought he might quietly retire to France in peace...
The video should have covered what happened to Piper after his release from prison.
Peiper was a victim of that terrorist organisation called Mossad.
Of course EVERYBODY in Malmedy know this ! It's such a small town !
And of course bad communication did occure as it always does during a war where things are always messy.
For a long time the Americans pretended that the German bombarded Malmedy but the local population has always been skeptical about it since Malmedy was never really a German target. They never attacked it on the ground. They simply circumvented it. Their objective was much farther. We now know that NO German airplanes bombarded anything in the area ! But the 9th Air Force records correspond perfectly (B-26 bombers) with the timing of these events.
What bother people here is that there was a real effort from the US to hide this sad event. The propaganda of the time obviously really wanted to exploit to the maximum the massacre of 84 American solidiers a few miles away. And nothing was ever said of the bombardment of Malmedy itself to this day !
Many Belgian civilians were assassinated for no reasons by the SS in different places of the countryside : 4 here, 6 there, 17 in another place, etc. But those numbers pale compared to the numbers of killed in Malmedy town itself which at that time housed a lot of civilian refugees.
The town recorded the death of 252 civilians whose names were known and they are listed on the memorial. These were mostly locals. But the number was higher. After January 1945 many bodies were send to other small towns and villages where their families burried them locally and they are not counted in this total.
The local authorities estimated that they were an equal number of people severely wounded and the medics were completely overwelmed !
Since the US forces in Malmedy was about equal in numbers to the civilians it is estimated that the American losses must have been more or less the same though the US Army never even acknowledged such losses.
The US medics were so busy tending their own military casualties that they could barely take care of the civilians. There was a complete shortage of medicins and medical equipment. Since so many houses had been destroyed the wounded were kept lying in open air in the streets and tented there on the pavement despite the cold weather.
We will never know the exact figure... 500 for the Belgian population and 500 for the Americans is of course a rounded estimation of the casualties (deads or severely wounded, amputees, etc. ) but it is not an exagerated number.
The Belgian people paid and build a memorial for the US soldiers killed in Baugnez... where each year Americans visiting the area always stop to pay respect...
but a similar memorial in Malmedy town was denied by the American authorities !
So the Belgian locals feel like it's a bit of a "masquerade", a big "show".
Hope you understand my English.
Related to this is the American bombing campaign in France before dday killed more french civilians than the Germans did the whole time they were there. The mass killing of civilians is usually covered up to boost morale but it is often known anyway
@@louisbarraud7853 The USAAF and RAF bomber command raids on Caen inflicted terrible casualties upon the civilian population as well as reducing the city to rubble which provided the German defenders with a wealth of cover,the raid ultimately did not contribute to the allied advance,indeed it hindered it and caused many more allied casualties than if the city had not been bombed.
Your English is well understandable.
Your English is excellent.
I am curious as to why most of the stories about the malmedy massacre do not contain any information about the survivors one of them I actually met a few years ago at a gun show when he was selling his book so there were survivors and I think their stories are interesting and should not be ignored in the narrative
Source for my previous comment ? The best of all !
My family lived in the area. No book has ever reported on this !
Tha war ended on May 8th 1945 and in July my father, 15 years old, was helping to clean up the rubbles in Malmedy. I still have a photo of him doing so with the local population.
In the late 80's when the maire of the town erected a monument for the Belgian civilians killed in Malmedy he was also going to build a memorial for the dead US soldiers... till the US embassy forcefully blocked the project ! ;-)
Disgraceful. What idiot bureaucratic idiot did this?
My wife's uncle Grover was a runner from the 80th Division and attached to Company B of the 285th Forward Observation Battalion and was captured by Kampfgruppe Peiper. They were taken to the Baugnez crossroads and mowed down by Peiper's men. Despite being shot in the head, uncle Grover survived the Malmedy massacre and helped get the survivors back to the American lines because he was a runner and knew where the lines were. They made a makeshift stretcher for him as he was unable to walk with the head wound. RIP uncle Grover. Joachim Peiper got his just reward and I'm sure he's serving his sentence in hell. Cheers from eastern TN
This is literally not even what occurred. Piper was already ahead and never gave any order for this. He was released after the exhaustive trial.
The massacre was a result of one tank driver (Felps) firing a pistol shot. Witnesses disagree why but apparently as a way to scare the prisoners. This unfortunately set a chain reaction in motion of prisoners becoming justifiably agitated and moving around. When some near the back started fleeing, the Germans began firing on what they perceived to be escaping prisoners. The rest is as described.
Since the prosecution could never prove any premeditated orders for murder, most of the accused had to be acquitted or sentences overturned.
The full trial transcripts are easily available online.
Prior to becoming a regimental commander of the 1st SS-Panzer Division 'LSSAH', Peiper was Reichsführer-SS Himmler's personal adjutant from 1939 until the summer of 1941 during 'Operation Barbarossa'.
Talk about a "Soldaten wie andere auch", a soldier like the others
True.
What exactly does a "personal adjutant" do for one?
@@timbibin1301 he got Himmler's coffee and cooked his bratwurst
That is why the SOB is Brutal.
You MUST do the Katyń massacre of thousands of Polish officers by the Soviets in 1940.
My Dad was a combat infantryman, fought in the Bulge, the Hurtgen Forest, and crossed the Rhine at the Remagen bridge shortly after its capture. I once mentioned to him about Malmedy and Stavelot and he simply shook his head and said something to the effect that, "The Germans there were shock troops and had to keep moving and really couldn't afford to take prisoners. You know, we did things like that, too." He didn't elaborate and that was the end of our conversation. He never talked about it again but I always felt that he got to look over the edge into Hell and it haunted him the rest of his days. He probably had what is now PTSD but then it was simply something WW II vets bore alone, may Almighty God rest his soul. Great video, BTW.
Many of us don't appreciate how good we have it.
Please don't stop making these videos. I find each one utterly fascinating. I would happily donate money to help keep it going.
It happens on both sides. I had a friend who was in the 9th U.S. ID. He told me of men he knew that outright shot German prisoners. He told me shot a German medic during the battle of the bulge. There was a group of germans rushing their position. He was just shooting and he seen this one German who had a great big red cross on white cloth across his chest he said it looked like a great big bullseye so he shot at it. He didn't even realize what he had done until afterwards. He was a youngster scared, in combat and just did it. He told me it bothered him his whole life.
Ernest Hemmingway who was assigned as a war reporter, admitted to a friend in a letter that he had murdered over 100 German POW´s, during interrogations. To this day this sob is feted as a ¨great man¨ by many.
Combat is crazy but still pulling the trigger is a willful action. Taking prisoners slow down a lot a unit's movement, so wrong choices are made very easily.
Each life taken we have to explain to Jesus Christ, the Judge one day.
War is TERRIBLE
@@gerardfrederick5504 You don't know much about Hemingway do you? The guy was notorious for exaggerating and including bits of facts interspersed with fanciful exaggeration. He knew he had to stay relevant. He often wrote in those letters you reference that parts of the letters were not true. But I guess if I say that I have a captured ET UFO in my garage that means it's true...because, you know, by your logic, I said it, therefore it must be true.
And what about Chenogne massacre? It was a war crime committed by members of the 11th Armored Division, an American combat unit, near Chenogne, Belgium, on January 1, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge.
According to eyewitness accounts, an estimated 80 German prisoners of war were massacred by their American captors: the prisoners were assembled in a field and shot with machine guns.
It was one of several war crimes which were committed during the Battle of the Bulge by members of BOTH Allied and Axis forces.
The american prisoners who were wounded after the shooting were killed by the germans,they had a gunshot wound in the neck.This was certainly without doubt a warcrime.Also Belgian civilians were murdered what was the reason?
@@pieterzwaan4451 I’m not saying Malmedy wasn’t a war crime. I am just pointing out that the Americans did exactly the same in return, killing German POW’s.
What do you expect after hearing of the German massacres .. tit for tat
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I am sure the killings of the Germans was fueled by revenge from the Americans. But who knows it happens? Was there any investigation and was anyone held accountable? Nope. The Malmedy massacre is very well known and much was written about it. But the American reprisal killings that claimed the lives of at least the same number of German POWS is hardly known at all.
@@bjornwenzel2683 because the Germans made a hobby out of exterminating people.. no one cared about a bunch of Germans being killed out of reprisals
Could you please do a talk on the Canadian P.O.W.s executed by Kurt "panzer" Meyer around the same time?
but why dont you talk about chenogne massacre , 50 german medic excuted by american soldiers
It's on the list of videos to be made soon!
@@TheUntoldPast Have you done a vid on the Katyn massacre?
@@TheUntoldPast thousands of Polish officers and doctors and others were gunned down by the Soviets. Also they tried to blame the Germans for it. Makes you wonder
I think you should do a documentary on the treatment of German prisoners of war with thousands starved to death by Americans
Good idea... War is barbaric, and even the victors participated in the barbarism.... The yanks were indeed guilty of many atrocities of murder and rape, in Europe and in Japan.
It would have been difficult prosecuting the Germans here when almost simultaneously the Americans massacred 80 German prisoners at Chenogne.
Yes but Chenogne was blatantly pure retaliation for malmedy.
you may also want to look at Oradour sur Glane, another village burnt to the ground and all its villagers massacred during WW2, what made it worse is that the target was Oradour sur Vayres another town about 20 minutes away, where the SS believed one of their own was being held captive, the town today is still as it was on that day and now serves as a memorial to those lost and a reminder of the tragic consequences of War
An eye for an eye! Treat those men just like they treated the POWs who surrendered
And the Russians who surrendered??
@@daviddoran3673 absolutely
There was a guy in my local area Carl Daub was a survivor of the massacre. He later killed his wife because of the masscre. This happened in 1988. I remember it being on America's Most Wanted. He dissappered and was declared legally dead in the 90's.
local to me also. his body was found on the Appalachian Trail in 2003.
@@backpain4ever505 I never knew they found his body.
You and Drach are two of the best libraries on TH-cam
Thank you for the upload
The Biscari Massarce happened in Italy when the US 45th Infantry murdered 73 Italian and 2 German soldiers, this happened a year and half before Malmedy! Shortly after the D- Day Invasion in the village of Audouville-la-Hubert, France. US Paratroopers murdered 30 regular German Army POW's. This happened 6 months before Malmedy! After the Malmedy Massarce At least 6 known massarce's of German soldiers took place the worst being the Chenogne massacre when 80 German surrendered soldiers were executed by the US 11th Armored Division!
The Germans massacred far more people
For once, the Germans appear to have gotten an unfair rap on the Malmedy massacre. What apparently happened was that, while the Americans were grouped up in front of the Germans guarding them with machine guns, some of the prisoners in the back started running. The machine guns opened fire on them. This then panicked the entire group and they all started running. Then machine guns opened up on everybody.
It was a massacre, but it wasn't intended. The US military was happy to later hype it to discourage surrending.
Wow, you certainly have no idea of what you are talking about.
@@bullhead900 Why do you think that, in the end, neither Pieper nor anyone in his unit was executed for killing 83 Americans?
@@bullhead900 How do you know that? The transcripts of the trial are readily available for those who are searching for the facts instead of believing the media.
@@jasonweaver6524 Show me the transcript that proves Pipers gave the order? And if it exists, why would the US Army not execute him ASAP?
Sounds true
War is so sad, so sad.
Tell your children about the My Lai massacre. Captain Calley was "punished" with three years House Arrest. - Wow!
The biggest 'problem' regarding the My Lai Massacre was that there were innumerable other massacres in Vietnam by Americans that have received little or no coverage then or now.
Lt Calley
Following orders from many higher ranking officers . Scapegoat
@@mooremike100 Thanks.
A lot of the soldiers captured were black. Was this the reason for the Massacre, as it happened to French troops from Africa in 1940. It was also common practice on the eastern front with the captured Soviet troops.
Were black troops regularly treated badly by the Germans? I know they looked down on them due to their "Aryan master race" beliefs, but I haven't heard the full story.
Good work Germans ❤️
Shame they couldn't finished a war they started
Amazing how so many envy us American's 🇺🇸 because of our freedom & culture that we plan on keeping & who's law-abiding citizens have the right to keep and bear arm's, & have carry permits while foreigners terrorists Domestic & international will think twice before invading our Nation,, MAGA STRONG 🇺🇲 💪🏻!!
Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up
In combat, you act without passion and without hate, you respect defeated enemies, and you never abandon your dead, your wounded, or your arms.
Excellent point. Someone needs to tell that to President Brandon. 13 service members killed and 100’s of American’s left behind. FJB has been a complete failure since day one.
Would be interested if you could do an episode on atrocities committed by the allies, or presumably they've been covered up ( history written by the winners). Amazed these got away with it! Interesting video, thank you as always 👍🏻👍🏻
Yes, the old excuse by Nazi sympatheizers. History is written by the winners". Yes some atrocities were commited by allied soldiers, often in retaliation for German atrocities like the murder of 80 POWs in the Chenogne massacre in Chenogne, Belgium on January 1, 1945, commited by the Americans in retaliation for the Malmedy Massacre by the SS on December 17th, 1944:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenogne_massacre
Or the 30 Dachau Concentration Camp guards murdered by American troops
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals
So yes the Western Allies's hands are not spotless, but anything what the Western Allies did is not even on the same planet compared to what the Germans (and Japanese) did, especially on the Eastern Front. And that is not even including the Holocaust. So no moral equivalency or history is written by the winners nonsense. You have to look to the Soviets for that.
@@arrow1414 Thanks for your detailed reply. I was just curious if there were any reports or trials, suspected there was but wasn't aware of any ( thus the "history written by the winners" - I'm certainly not a nwzi apologist or supporter in any way!) . Appreciate you took the time to answer my question, Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
It would seem likely that even the US would have covered up the Malmedy Massacre when it occurred. Those commanders that did know issued some rash orders (No SS personnel to be taken alive) which has to be countermanded. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, to avoid reprisal actions by the enemy. Hitler didn't give a crap about that it seems. The second, more important thing is, you want the enemy to not fight to the death, which is what happens when chances are you're going to get killed anyway.
It took a while, and there is debate on whether it ever took with the Japanese.
Also, you notice most national governments take great steps to avoid it (like Iraq in Desert Storm). ISIS doesn't give a crap about that.
@@arrow1414 Hi I have not heard of the Germans shooting red cross soldiers but I did hear of Americans and Russians doing that
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Cite a source.
The French didn’t forget about Peiper though. They caught up with him in 1976. Au revoir.
Hard to believe what our grandparents' generation on all sides went through - and it really wasn't that long ago.
My father's generation, and he didn't talk about his painful experiences as a five year three month infantryman in Africa and Italy. He had vivid nightmares for years after demob' including reliving hand-to-hand combat and attempting to strangle my sleeping mother next to him. War has traumatized hundreds of millions, and the decision to enter a war should not be made lightly. Imagine having your face and hands melted off, and living with that. "I ain't no senator's son...."
My parents lived through WW2,, my late father in law served in WW2 & he has told me a couple of stories along with my mother's German Jewish friend who was the same age as my mother she lived downstairs from us in are apartment building back in the late 70s and she told us some horror story's and even showed us the numbers tattooed on her arm, her parents were killed,, how she survived we never asked , knowing she was traumatized enough.
The yanks were just as bad if not worse on some occasions
What???
☝️these are facts.
@@MrPickledede oh really? You didn't know?
@@MrPickledede Chenogne massacre for one , even though they tried very hard to cover it up as you'd expect from the yanks
@@bravo2zero796 Yanks?? Are you a baseball fan?
Peiper did NOT order the execution of the prisoners!!!!!! He wasn't there!!!!!! Fleps fired without orders!!!!
Peiper was there and at many other Massacres he even took part in the Murder of Children in Russia personally strangling them or using a bayonet. Why he was never hanged I cannot find a reason, probably used by the Americans after the War .
How absolutely deplorable!!!
pure evil men who commit such acts
Thank you
You're welcome! :)
Thank you!!!
Pieper really didnt have much option. Either shoot them or let them go, bringing behind the lines was never going to work
It was how it was going around that time. Americans adopted a policy of take no prisoners too.
Apparently a Volksdeutsch Hungarian George Fleps fired the first shots at the prisoners....
Sad, this is really sad, but that’s how gutless the US and English justice system was and still is today, another example of how gutless the US justice system, research Unit 731, and you will want to throw up.
Calley spiers could also be included
In the category the katyn massacre as well
Maybe the knights of bushido had the right code no surrender
Also gurkhas fight to the death etc!
Part of the reason why so many SS, Nazi, Eisatzgruppen etc. got light sentences is because if we punished the Germans too harshly, we might have had a repeat of post WW1 Germany. Where deep resentment festered. Therefore many - not all - of the perpetrators of horrific crimes like the one described in this video got short sentences. They had to answer to God when they died though.
wrong
@@tlk0216 lol good revenge is best served cold
@@Vampybattie You haven't been to war have you?
During World War I the Germans did not commit so many crimes but we're harsh too much on them but in World War I I thing were different they had already killed six million Jews in death camps and killed four million non Jews Polish people the y massacred 20 million Russians civilians in four years of occupation Things were different they HAD TO ACCEPT whatever punishment saw fit to give them and if they didn't like what the Allies were doing well they could have let Germany in Russian hands to o hell with their resentment they had to do what they were told and acc es pt all the executions this Nazi human trash had to die for what they did Damm it Allies were weak in that respect
Are there any war crime committed by the allies been punished? Like the Muslim atrocities in Italy?
Peiper never gave the order.
Never surrender,never be a pow.
no human would ever do this to another human
My uncle billy wm Donald watts killed 1 23 1945 117 the infantry 30th rifle division company E age 20 or 21 kia battle of bulge wish I'd known him
Way to many Germans got away with mass murder 😡 It truly makes me sick how absolutely nothing was done 🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤢🤮
What do you mean nothing was done? Anything happens at war ...War takes no prisoners.Also the British and the Americans did the same with the most of German prisoners they took but nobody talks about that because "GERMANS THE BAD GUYS".
I prefer to say that was straight out murder
The sad thing is Peiper and the rest involved in this massacre got away with it.
Something very interesting about Peiper coming up very very soon.
If by getting ID'd after the war and burned alive in his house means getting away with it, then yeah, I guess he did lol
Thank you for sharing this necessary history!
He lived by the sword killing any thing in his path he could never hide than he died by fire that he could not kill or defeat
Joachim peiper herói 🤝🤝🤝🤝👏👏👏👏🙋🏻
Dresden.
In the current reporting on the course of the Battle of the Bulge, one important point is missing: the war crimes committed by the Americans.
For the Eifel, the "Holzheim Massacre" is worth mentioning. Here, on 29 January 1945, ten German soldiers who were already prisoners of war were gunned down by US soldiers. Only one of the ten survived, as he was only grazed and played dead for hours. This survivor, Josef Peters from Bad Salzuflen, later reported this incident; this act was called the "Holzheim Massacre" in the book "The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge" by Peter Schrijvers.
If the execution of black GI's in Wereth is worthy of a memorial, then there should at least be a memorial plaque or stumbling stones or the like in Holzheim to commemorate this execution of Wehrmacht soldiers.
Ang ganda ng kwento niyo kuya
Malmedy seems to be a sand grain in comparison to what Peiper had done in the Eastern front (Taganrog, Yefremovka, etc.). So I feel it was some kind of justice in his awful death.
pieper was in a hurry so they wasn't taking prisoners.
It is a sad fact that in contrast with Japanese trials, few German war criminals were executed from the armed forces, though in Europe 27 Million people were murdered by SS and army troops.
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How the hell that the interrogator aloud to stand trial in court
They should just round them up like what they did to the prisoners
Am angry 😡
The 6 German Panzer Division was not a SS Panzer division by thta time.
Canadians at the Abbey, Americans at Malmedy, entire civilian town of Oradour sur Glane, Lidice as well... there’s some sort of similar patterns of common animalistic brutality and violation, but i just can’t put my middle finger on it. Not nearly enough justice was meted out, and that’s not even touching the “scott free” that happened for most Japanese committed atrocities
I have read different books about the Battle of the Bulge and have seen documentaries as well. Peiper insisted he never gave the order to kill the prisoners. However he told the men who were guarding the Americans that they would hamper the movements of his group. And he would lose men if they needed to be brought back to German camps. So the Germans at the scene interpreted his comments to dispose of the prisoners. We do know of Peipers scorched Earth tactics on the Eastern Front. His column was seriously behind on the timetable set. So surely he was frustrated. And I'm sure his subordinate officers were also frustrated.
Testimony at the trial as to what orders the armored spearhead had was actually quite specific and clear. They were to leave surrendering soldiers behind to be picked up by the following infantry. The rest is speculation.
Hollywood.
Hey Amy 😂 Great 👍 history update.
on e of the men killed waa named kinsman...last name from haverhill ,mass
I've visited the Baugnez crossroads......I've read Virgil T Larys account....
"They could have made it if they just stayed loose."
Really shameful behavior
They got his ass. Joachim Pieper. They let five or ten years go by and let him get comfortable thinking he got away with it. They tied him up, soaked his house in petrol and burned him alive. Some say it was the former soldiers but we’ll never truly know…
Maybe it was a former American Nalmedy survivor and an Italian survivor from Boves helped by former French resistants to kill Peiper who knows
Not only 'Brutal' but of course Unlawful.
Grow up wars unlawful
Yes, how quickly we forget. Guantanamo should had never happened. But those who don't study history are bound to repeat it.
Stay on topic
HITLER WAS TO GRACEFULLY TO THE ENGLISH SOLDIER AND LET THEM FREE BEFOR AND THEY WAS THE OPOSITE OF THANKFUL
Peiper was sentenced to death during war crimes trials. His sentence was commuted to life because he was tortured by US troops who captured him. His sentence was commuted again to time-served because beat of a trial technicality. He was burned to death in his home in the mid-70’s in France when the French learned of his past and residence. He shared our oxygen for way too long.
At the start of the war some british soldiers were marched to a shed by german ss when a british officer try to ask a ss officer he was shot dead and those in side the shed were fired at and grenades thrown inside there was one servivour who managed to escape
This piece of history has been done over and over, and no one ever gets it right. How about covering the killing of German prisoners which was common place since Normandy. Crack open some books and showcase that. I can show ya 1000 just from memory.
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Why don't you talk about in one of your videos about the 82nd airborne Division easy company that murdered over 3,000 German pows in violation of the Geneva convention also why don't you cover about the United States Army Air corps murdering Japanese civilians and the the first atomic bomb when they murdered pregnant women babies children civilians in Japan I Don't see you talking about this
Stopp distorting history und look at your own atrocities.
Sheers
Bottom line let the idiots who create war go to war . I have played this game. Not anymore.
As always, it becomes incumbent upon US troops to show restraint and civility to conscienceless murderers.
Don't forget kids : you can only be considered a war criminal if you lose the war
Obviously Malmédy was a war crime.
The SS should have never been taken prisoner.
This guy never shows any executions but always titles his vids as if he were going to. I cancelled my subscription as soon as I figured that out.
Because TH-cam would put age rating
shame on US justice dep.! Sucks§
Kama
I don't say they we're angels but the us army and the britisch and friends killed enough SS who we're captured or surrendered.the french general Leclerc even let people excecuted from thé division Charlemagne because they we're from alsace
Peiper did what he had to do given the circumstances
You must be a neo Nazi trash
Killer Peiper joachim
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None of the Germans were really punished, some spent a few years in prison but no one was executed as they should have been.
My Lai