@@paullewis2413 I can understand the quality of the images at the time, but the ravages of time in storage on the media, even if transferred to other modern medias as the time progresses, I would expect some severe degradation. It has survived so well.
The most important part of a camera is the lens. If you have a cheap lens on a camera, the image's quality is not as good as what you get in a more expensive lens. I'm sure they used 16mm films in this trial which was the norm in those days.
"History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circles of those who were there" - Joachim Peiper
@@lorenzograham7854 mate since when did I say I was defending him? This quote has a lot of meaning, did you know that a number of americans committed various atrocities similar to peipers during the battle of the bulge, but of course it was covered up and nobody got in trouble. Its war, nobody is completely good.
@@hahahoodgoboom4778 yea mate I here you but some 500 german pows killed is nothing and most of them are ss shame on any person defending the ss🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@hahahoodgoboom4778 US troops never perpetrated any such wholesale slaughter as that committed by the 1st SS Panzer Division under the orders of Piper. Read about Piper and the 1st SS Panzer and their slaughter of civilians as well as soldiers. Study up. Joachim Piper died unrepentant and never addressed his orders to murder unarmed soldiers and civilians. Piper is what we would call today a evil shitbag.
My Australian father was a Judge-Advocate at the Southern Pacific War Crimes Tribunals held in Rabaul, New Britain, from 1945-1947. Nearly 300 Japanese soldiers stood trial. 40 were acquitted, 73 were hung and the rest were committed to up to 30 years imprisonment. Copies of most of the affidavits of evidence against those hung were in my fathers papers which I read after his death in 1992. I cannot tell you of the unspeakable acts of barbarity that occurred against nurses, missionaries and Allied soldiers in captivity. What happened at Malmedy was a walk in the park apart from the loss of life. My father was scarred for life from those two years of trials. My grandmother said she sent away a robust red-headed man and respected lawyer in 1942, to do his duty to defend his country, who was wounded twice and suffered from Malaria and nearly died. She said she got back a hunched over old man, with remnants of white whispy hair. He never practiced law again. War crimes occur in all conflicts and on all sides, but it pains me to consider that of all nations that abhor such crimes, the United States itself refused to ratify its membership of the International Criminal Court (War Crimes) to prevent its own soldiers from being prosectuted for their own war crimes under international law. During the Nuremberg, Tokyo and Rabaul Tribunals after WW2, the US was very aggressive in prosecuting the war crimes of Germans and Japanese, but refused to do so against its own armed forces, many of whom committed equally heinous acts of murder as the SS did in the Malmedy incident. Its epic hypocricy.
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pff. His rubbish personality overtook his intellect, nor was he very practical. His courage was born in his impulsivity, recklessness, fantasy and self interest
Good? He wasn't good. He was well connected. He got the best assignments, the best weapons, his pick of troops. He failed on the Eastern Front, and he failed in Belgium.
You do know it shows people being hanged? There are many other vids on YT that talk about Malmedy without the hanging. To try to cite this as an example of YT deliberately not wanting kids to learn history is simply inaccurate
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@@sciflyernineteensixtynine6950 In early 1970's our high school class viewed raw/uncensored concentration camp footage which included piles of dead bodies being bulldozed into mass graves. I have always believed these scenes should be seen as they were filmed with no censorship. I have never had any issues after viewing them or reading about them....
Despite their crimes, I was impressed at their stoic behaviour at the sentencing. Aside from one of them that turned and rudely stomped away before they had finished speaking to him, not one of those guys flinched or even gulped etc. Bad people are not necessarily cowards it would seem.
@@joachim1628 What a load of crap. If Julius Streicher wasn't a "bad guy", nobody is a bad guy. Don't try to blame young people for the atrocities the Nazis committed. The Hitler Jugend was under firm control until the very last days of the war, when the regime collapsed. They acted on the orders of the older men who commanded their units, and they, in turn, acted on the orders of the high officials, especially Hitler, the Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces.
@@lethe3939 well duhh,, this kind of war crime is right up there with ISIS and the Taliban Al Qaeda ( AKA, 9/11 ) war criminals who actually think there going to rule and control the world,, thank God American's have there second amendment that will never be infringe,, fact most war criminals or any criminals at that matter are sociopaths they have no mercy or morals.
It's interesting that the officers got more lenient sentences than the soldiers. The whole affair and level of human suffering is so sad on both sides.
Neither of them whined for mercy. Neither of them cried. Neither of them acted like a rat. Paiper acted like a real commander with great character. And that mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa while hearing his death sentence ... Few people know that Peiper was fluent in English, but he did not want to speak this language in captivity. People with great charisma, class and peace. It shows. Real soldiers. RESPECT.
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim of course you have a problem with gay people. Do you also have problems with people of color. how about the jews you fucking nazi. got you red handed
I had a uncle who served in ww2.He told me that they killed captured german soldiers and that the germans were not the only side of the war that did the same.
2 wrongs don't make a right. Read up on the 1 SS Panzer Div. and its long list of atrocities. These SS guys were nothing like the avg German soldiers. If a few rules were broke & some SS dudes didn't make it to a POW camp. Well, they pretty much deserved what they got.
@@AndyP998 It's like the different degrees of murder. So yes, a few knuckleheads killing a few POW's is different than a battalion of executioners roaming the countryside Thats why we have different degrees of murder. The victim is still dead, but the circumstances decide the severity of the crime.
Did you know, Peiper gets set free in 1956, and begins working with sales at Porsche. He later moves to France with his wife (pretty arrogant move), where he lives for many years, until he in 1976 agrees to attend in an interview about him. A few weeks after this interview is published, his house gets burned down with himself inside it, while his wife was visiting in Germany. They found a loaded .22 rifle by his side.
Kinda had it coming .rumour at the time it was french communists. But then other rumours he was done to cover up what he knew .... People like speculation
He could have run out of the house and saved his life. But he was trying to gather things, and also some of his wife's clothes. He was planning to move to Germany within days; his wife had already gone to Germany. He knew his life was in danger. That explains the guns. Had he left a day earlier he would have prob been safe in Germany.
@@halibut1249 most of us would pack our bags and leave the house straight away after being threatened like that. But not Joachim. The man had balls of steel. Too brave for his own good judging by the incredible stunts he pulled on the front line. Nothing fazed him and that was what caused his eventual downfall by the sounds of it.
I think he went to France, as german "Nazi-hunters" never stop to harras war veterans. France declared war on Germany and attacked first. France was defeated by Germany within 6 weeks and was under German occupation from June 40 to June 1944. More French people died in mass bombing during the Allied liberation than during the German conquest and during the entire occupation period! After that, the French, as the "victorious power", made extensive use of their right to get back at the Germans. Nevertheless, peace returned to Europe and I don't know what's "arrogant" about Peiper moving to France.
I realise that most of the defendant's had their sentences commuted but the question I have is this. What was the criteria for sentencing ? How did they separate the death penalty from imprisonment? Sounds like a numbers game by the judges to me as to appease Stalin and the French. The Waffen SS were brutal as we're many allied units. The RAF bombed Dresden twice in one evening just so they could kill the fire brigades after the initial bombing had caused a firestorm. To the victors go the spoils I guess and accountability is one of those advantages.
Some comments here were disgusting. This man was an accomplished soldier, he has beaten a lot of Americans in a fair fight, so they got back at him after the war. For months before trial him and his mates were brutally tortured and treated horribly. Decades later, he was murdered by a bunch of thugs, they found his dead body with a gun right next to him... He died like a man. And all those "nazi hunters" would probably squeal and beg for mercy if they were put in such position. My grandfather fought on the "other" side of that war, but I hold deep respect to men like Pieper. He was an accomplished warrior and a true defender of his country.
speedoflite1 Utterly incorrect. There was only one 'take no prisoners' order and that was for active Bolsheviks caught on the eastern front. Any other incorrect information you'd like to add?
Fuzz Garrett You need to read: "Massacres and Atrocities of World War II" by George Duncan" and "War without Mercy: Pacific War" by John Dower. - these and other sources discuss murder, abuse of POWs and civilians, retaliation, and counter-retaliation committed by ALL sides throughout Europe and Asia. I accept your apology in advance.
speedoflite1 You need to listen to the testimony of Hal McCown that took place right in this trial. Germans took plenty of prisoners on the western front and you'll see very clearly what their "standard operating procedure" was. In that post you simply skirt around the flawed argument you made in the post before. Let me be clear: Nobody, including me, says the Germans didn't abuse any POWs from time to time, as did all sides. But you said it was "standard operating procedure" for Germans to murder prisoners on the western front, and that is utterly un true and no amount of semantics games on your part will change that. You said: "[Killing prisoners] was SOP (standard operating procedure) per the Führer, "take no prisoners!" Utterly false. The Wehrmacht manual was also very clear about this. You seem to forget that Germany also signed onto the Geneva Convention. Such 'standard operating procedure' would not be permissible under the Geneva Convention. If you have evidence of a direct order from the high command telling the Wehrmacht or Waffen to summarily execute prisoners as "standard operating procedure," then either post that or stop the semantics games. MANY prisoners were taken on the western front. Hal McCown was one of many.
@@kjragg1099 It's hard to say he had a big Ego when his soldiers always said he was a great leader and very charming. He knew how to use psichology, that's all. =)
Where was the trial for the Chenogne Massacre, Lippach massacre, Biscari massacre, what about all the Germans who surrendered on dday but were executed because the allies were ordered not to take prisoners. Or the 900,000 POWs starved to death by Eisenhower? I’m not saying what any of these men did was right, but we need to understand that in war it is a different situation, men are forced to do horrible things. Unless you have been in their shoes you have no right to judge any of them.
Jochen Peiper...."Kuno Von Dodenburg" in the SS Wotan by Leo Kessler (Chalres Whiting) Whiting knew Peiper personally and is one of our greatest historical writers. Jochen Peiper was released, but murdered in the 1976.
@comfortableman12 He was sentenced to death, and then after many years pardoned. Little is known of the process, and if every soldier would get what he deserves through the centuries, especially when it comes to american war criminality, there would be a large number of murdered american soldiers from all wars of the 20th century.
Mannn! People were Soo different in those times. I find it unbelievable that they Honorably took those Death Sentence with Soilders Pride! Some guys even Bowed to the Judge after he Sentenced them to Death by Hanging. I Feel sorry for these guys and this was kind of sad. I'm sure mostof them didn't get a fair Trial and this was just American Vengeance upon them! They were defending thier Country and Following orders as Soilders. I'm amazed at thier courage and their honor to remain soilders to the end! Much Respect to the German Soilders 👍
Remember, during the war these guys saw death around them everywhere. Many prob avoided getting killed just by luck. Bullets and bombs very close. It psychologically braces you for death. Germans who worked in death camps put innocents to death everyday. All that exposure to death braces you to accept your fate, come what may. But none of these guys in the end got executed. Their sentences got commuted, at first to long prison time, then shorter prison time, by 1956 they were all released.
Pretty hard to claim germans were only defending their country when they committed the malmady massacre in Belgium, a neutral country they had invaded twice, in 2 world wars, that GERMANY STARTED. Please extract ur head outta ur azz before making such a STUPID claim. Germany got exactly what it deserved.
Joachim Pieper laughed , and that's the best you can do againts these puppets.He made feel them frustrated, their power is to scare you, but if you smile to the death, it's like to spit in their faces. He understood that this trial had nothing to do with the real justice.
On December 21, 1944, during the battle around Gleize, Peiper captured an American officer, Major McCown, who was leading one of the battalions of the 119th Infantry Regiment. Having heard about the Malmedy massacre, McCown personally asked Peiper about his fate and that of his men. McCown testified later that Peiper told him neither he nor his men were at any risk and that he (Peiper) was not accustomed to killing his prisoners. McCown noted that neither he nor his men were threatened in any manner. While on duty in Italy, Peiper discovered that the Italian government had captured a group of Jews. He had them released to him, and he then set them all free. One of the Jews was a rabbi, who later wrote a testimony to Peiper's kindness during his war crimes trial.
Its called murderers and they were a group of young communists.They decapitaded his body before burning his house after they killed him.real heroes they were.
This video is MISLEADING, it says "trial uncut", but in fact, its all CUTS and even no audio. This video is horrible and a disappointment to those of us interested in history and wanting to actually see the UNCUT version of this important historical trial.
u will never get the truth they covered loads up himlers so called suicide was a load of bull a few have spokeen out about it but made out to be crazy or not there
@@kaa13 But why show some hangings? No one was executed as a result of the trial. Many got a death sentence, but they all where let go as US government found the trial to be a mock trial and evidence was tainted. Even though one today may have reversed that once again they freed all the prisoners. Peiper lived until 1976. So this video is massively misleading in a historic context.
Had a good friend who was an us army guard at a POW camp in washington State He said they never had an escape attempt at the camp till after the war but, had several attempts when they were on the train back to the east coast to repatriate the persons back to Germany at end of the war.. they didnt want to go back to Germany life was too good here.
Those familiar with Charles Whitings pseudonym "Leo Kessler" Writing about SS Wotan, will understand that Peiper is "Kuno Von Dodenburg". Charles Whiting is probably the greatest wwii historian writer to exist.
What is most impressive is to see all those childish faces and to think that they were all ready to mercilessly kill anyone who came before him and that he was an enemy.
Ultimately the sentences of the Malmedy defendants were commuted to life imprisonment and then to time served. Peiper's sentence was commuted to 35 years in 1954 and he was released in December 1956, the last of the Malmedy condemned to be freed. He had served 11 and a half years in prison.
Was there a Biscari Massacre Investigation Report or video recording of the trials, as we seeing above, or are war crime trials and reports only exclusive for the defeated? At Biscari, a full 18 months before Malmedy where 76 Italian and German POWs, (and 8 or more civilians at Ciancatti) were gunned down by soldiers of the American 45th. division. There were other incidents, for example on June 6th at Audouville-la-Hubert, (note this is still more than 6 months before the Malmedy incident) where 30 wounded Wehrmacht POWs were executed on the spot and their bodies left to rot and mish-mashed by Allied tanks and GMCs!
yea? The SS had been murdering POW's since Poland. Some isolated, regretted incidents led by an Allied junior officer or NCO is quite different to an operational policy of terror, aimed at both POW's and civilians.
@@camerong5513 That´s not true! The Waffen-SS regulary sent captives to the backlines. They were sent to POW-Camps. Wounded enemies got medical treatment just like the own soldiers. Exceptions prove the rule!
@@camerong5513 Not a single war party can acquit itself of the accusation of having shot prisoners. But at least the Germans never had an explicit order from the top not to take prisoners or shoot prisoners of war. The Americans shot en masse German soldiers who surrendered, for example, in the "Battle of the Bulge" or "D-Day". Even after the capitulation, masses of Germans were shot down in cold blood with their hands raised.
@@feikotemme8736 - the Nazi's who fled to S. Amer. after the war (Adolph Eichmann, Joseph Mengele) were running from prosecution. Peiper WAS prosecuted as you can see in this vid, and served ten years in prison, then released, free to live where he wanted. That doesn't mean there weren't people who would kill him if given the chance. Maybe he would've been safer in S.Amer. or if he changed his name or identity, or avoided places like France that Hitler's Germany seized during the war.
Incredible that so many young mostly fit soldiers waiting calmly to be sentenced to death instead of jumping from the bench and try to kill few more, some even could escape. They had nothing to loose
The story is that this took place during the period when the British, French and Americans suddenly realized that they were going to become embroiled in a conflict with the Soviet Union. This conflict was known as the Cold War. The Western Allies recognized that Germany would become a valuable partner in this Cold War and that carrying out a lot of these sentences to the fullest would only further alienate a defeated German populace and the German government. So many of the death sentences were later commuted and prison sentences were cut measurably short.
@@zeorangervred5222 its not operation paperclip because these guys never contributed to their field anymore. Most of them went to work in a factory after they served their sentence. Piper was on death row for years and was murdered later by french communist. The germans specifically offered to organise a division from former ss troops to fight against the soviets but it was refused.
As all men will die, both "innocent" and the guilty, God will judge all our lives, our thoughts and hearts. No one will escape. God will know the difference between duty and willful killing. Just as many innocent are wrongly convicted, many of the guilty go free. God cannot be fooled, nor can He learn anything. God knows everything.
Indeed, brave men judged by hypocrites, let's not forget that Allies gave us to the soviet union,Allies helped communists grab the power. Of course they brushed 🇷🇺 atrocities under the carpet...
„Falls Sie mich attackieren, würde ich keinen Finger rühren. Falls Sie meine Männer attackieren - unfair und ungerecht - werden Sie mich auf den Barrikaden finden.“ (Joachim Peiper) GOTT MIT UNS
There was one well after Mai Lai, during W. Bush's presidency. Why? Because single individuals can break down, go rogue or be wrong; not state sanctioned. You're not as knowledgeable as you insinuate
Ultimately the sentences of the Malmedy defendants were commuted to life imprisonment and then to time served. Peiper's sentence was commuted to 35 years in 1954 and he was released in December 1956, the last of the Malmedy condemned to be freed. He had just served 11 and a half years in prison. During the night of 13/14 July 1976 (Bastille Day), Peiper's home in France was attacked. In the ruins, Peiper's charred corpse was found together with a 22 caliber rifle and a pistol. The perpetrators were never identified. A comunist group calling itself "The Avengers" claimed responsibility for his death.
Ulrich Esser It’s not fair is it Ulrich? It’s just not fair. Bloody capitalists, Jews, national and international socialism, it’s just not fair. You should write a book about it.
"Taught in schools"? You mean they get mentioned in passing as part of the German armed forces? So are all the other soldiers in WWII. The most important fact about these soldiers is that they LOST, they were BEATEN, that their "racial superiority" was shown to be a fantasy by their DEFEAT.
@@daebak6974 They were much better soldiers than any other soldiers in the world, you dope. That's why it took the U.S., Russia and Britain to defeat them -- and then only by firebombing a million civilians to death.
@@hurryandleave9680 They were good soldiers, well trained and disciplined. But I urge you to read "Null acht funfzehn" (08/15), a novel by Hans Helmut Kirst, who served in the Wehrmacht. The title is the mythical number of the "rule" that turns everything into chaos, incompetence, and bullshit. A bit like "Snafu" in the US -- "Situation Normal, All Fucked Up". Or Fubar -- "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition". In the novel, a bestseller in Germany, Kirst shows us the massive incompetence, stupidity, and chaos that existed behind the propaganda images purveyed by the Nazi regime. Another example is the famous incident where Goering, visiting the Westwall, was told that some Allied bombers had just flown over his location. Goering denied it, but the officer insisted that he had seen them himself. Goering then yelled "I order you that there were no planes!" The officer saluted and said "Jawohl!", but the sarcastic look on his face was remembered by all who were present. Goering was the genius who told the German people that his preparations for air defense were so perfect that if any Allied planes got through, "My name is Meyer!" People remembered this idiotic outburst when the German cities were being bombed into rubble. Hitler thought his armies would easily dispose of the Red Army, and expected to wrap up his Russian blitzkrieg by October at the latest. Therefore it was decided that the German troops would not be issued any winter clothing. "Bad for morale! Anyway, we'll be out of there long before the first snow falls, so why scare the troops by handing out snow pants and mittens?" This did not work out very well: the Germans were still in the USSR, trying to defeat the Red Army long after winter had begun, and the German soldiers had to deal with the bitter cold Russian winter wearing their summer fatigues. When Mussolini visited Germany before the war, Hitler wanted to impress him by showing off his troops involved in war games. When Mussolini's son in law, Ciano, later asked him how the German troops had performed, he said "Nothing special, same as our troops." 08/15 shows how "elite" the German troops were at ground level, where loudmouth NCOs bellowed contradictory orders and threats at the enlisted men, and nobody knew what the hell was going on most of the time. Why did the German troops perform as well as they did? They didn't necessarily perform well. But they did perform better than their opponents much of the time, and that was enough to win the victories they had. After 1942, the Red Army improved greatly, and at Stalingrad it gained the initiative and never lost it afterwards. The Western Allies were never as good as the Germans, but they had such overwhelming material superiority that it didn't matter -- they were always going to win, the Germans didn't have a chance. The most important stupidity the Germans committed was to go to war against the three greatest powers in the world at one time. This was suicidal for a medium sized country easily accessible from all sides, and close enough to the enemy to be subjected to mass bombing that effectively destroyed Germany's capacity to defend itself. Added to that the abominable behavior of Germans throughout Europe, but especially in the East, gave strong motivation to the Red Army soldiers as they marched through the areas that had been under German rule and saw what the Germans had done. Yes, German soldiers were better trained and fought more effectively, man for man, than their enemies. But that in itself meant nothing -- Germany guaranteed its own defeat by invading the USSR, and then declaring war on the US. That stupidity was Hitler's, and was shared by his generals, who for some reason obeyed this jumped up corporal as if he were some kind of military genius. Their duty to their country was to overthrow Hitler and save millions of German lives and prevent the destruction of the country. They failed to act on this highest duty -- to their own people -- and in doing so betrayed their country and dishonored themselves and trampled the traditions of the Prussian Army.
Too bad you can only read ads and propaganda. They're designed for a 4th grade reading level, which you can struggle through, slowly. But when it comes to writing aimed at adults, you are lost. I have no obligation to spoon feed information to you. In fact, no one has that obligation. Upgrade your reading skills, don't tell everybody else to talk down.
I SEE No fear in their faces as they knew already they would set free soon or latter despite their death sentences... . As their dream came true, all set free including Peiper...strange world !! p.s i read their history in Wikipedia
I saw a WWII POW picture of a Japanese soldier with sword raised over his head, face contorted with rage, about to behead a stooped but dignified blond boy/young man who looked as if he was simply examining the ground.
One of so many cases of victor's justic. Jochen Peiper was an exemplary soldier and officer. No war crimes have occurred in Malmedy. First of all, the US soldiers surrendered after a first fight against the Kampfgruppe Peiper. The German Vorauskommando had to continue attacking and ordered the prisoners to surrender to the advancing units. The US soldiers then picked up their weapons again and were eliminated by advancing German units. That's the truth.
Ironic that LTC Peiper spoke fluent French and English and in fact corrected the translators (not shown in these videos). This was an honorable man that took responsibility for the actions of his men good or bad. Didn't not put blame on anyone else and spoke the truth. LTC Peiper is a soldier's soldlier not some murdering Nazi. There is a saying in the military (pick your service) it not the right way or wrong way but the Army way. There is a huge difference between justice served and vengeance of the victors....
The German officers are cultivated people. When traveling in France you have to speak French, otherwise you get no tea or whatsoever. If you're interested, there is a fine biography of LTC Peiper. RIP
@@camerong5513 i am a german philologist and i know lots of about the european politics and history than you guess.i offer you to read the biography of Peiper and search about him a little bit.maybe you can discriminate the difference between a soldier and a murderer after doing that.
@@Fantomas4616 These men got later top positions because they were top men. They were our elite. Unlike today's elite, these men were highly intelligent, highly educated, and very capable. The fact that they were with the SS was a major professional obstacle at the time, but almost all of these formerly "high-ranking" individuals later went on to have good professional careers.
Mathias Dreßke which is far better than the justice they would have meted out and did mete our. The Nazis sense of justice was the most vile that has ever come into Western European life. Their hatred of non Germanic races resulted in the worst acts of human cruelty. The history books are filled with them.
@@rhysnichols8608 oh yes! That definitely won the argument. Tell you what genius, so see how the nazis tested poles, Slovaks, Russians, Czechs etc etc. You might be beyond education and reason, perhaps the only thing that can save you is prayer.
My father was a WW 2 combat Vet and he was told that if they captured surrendered SS troops they were to execute them. So the USA is not so clean after all. This is not to excuse anything done by the Germans. Just remember that the US and EU media is totally kosher owned.
I'm wondering when they are going to trial the Americans who shot and killed about 60 German POW's on jan 1st 1945 as a revenge for the Malmedy incident. Also the numerous other cases where groups of captive German soldiers were killed by their American captors. The Germans at least admit there were people who committed crimes during the war, what disgusts me is that the Americans still pretend they are all angels.
@@bloof5455 - no, their sentences kept getting reviewed, first commuted to life in prison, then gradually reduced down to twelve years, and then released early, in the mid 1950's. My personal opinion is that once they executed the top Nazi's at Nuremberg, the tide of public opinion started shifting, away from all these military tribunal prosecutions of rank & file military, and to focus on rebuilding Germany.
So explain how Virgil P. Larry Jr points to Georg Fleps (accused No. 14) of shooting down 3 American POW's in cold blood. Fleps is the cannon loader for Franz Siptrott and was several hundred metres away in his tank when the alleged action took place. Now with that explain to us, or should I how he could pick out the Gun Loader? I would recommend you think about what a Gun Loader would look like during combat. Now can you provide the ref for the autopsies and was it in the U.N. experts report?
6:42 all of those empty pin holes on his once-perfect uniform where countless medals once were. That must have driven the Germans insane and almost a fate worse than death.
You seem to think that Germans were mostly Nazi militarists who worshiped medals and other such crap. They were not. They never had been. Millions of Germans were socialists and communists; many were pacifists who hated war and those who "honor" it. It is not a "fate worse than death" to have your medals (the British call them "gongs") taken away. Only war crazed idiots think that way. You may be one of these. If so, you should realize that most people regard such ideas as little short of crazy, and many regard them as a dangerous form of insanity.
@@noretreat151 Some were volunteers, many were forced recruits drawn from among POWs. The Wehrmacht included all German armed forces. You mean they were not in the German Army (Heer). However Waffen SS divisions were often placed under the command of Army generals as part of a larger force. Army commanders often placed the Waffen SS divisions in the forefront of the attack since they were often fanatical, and did not shrink from taking severe casualties. By doing this, the officers saved the lives of their Army troops, and got rid of some of the fanatics that wanted to keep the war going so they could get "glory".
I read that a Rabbi gave a personal reference for Peiper at his trial, saying how Peiper had taken control of a group of captured Jews from the axis Italians and then released them.
@@coloradoing9172It's a standard American excuse for not admitting that Germans aren't just beasts. Joachim Peiper didn't need to "look good" in front of the allied victors. No one from the Waffen SS ever tried to save their necks this sleazy way.
Joachim Pieper, SS Panzer tank commander, pulled out of Russia for the Dec ‘44 Ardennes attack, didnt take prisoners. He, in fact, gave orders to kill the GIs taken prisoner at Malmady. In this court he was sentenced to death, but sentence was commuted by a German court. He was tried again, but was freed. Finally, Pieper ended up on his farm in Belgium. On night he was assassinated on his farm - no one was ever tried for his killing.
His unit, known as the "Blowtorch Battalion", also burned and slaughtered two Soviet villages near Kharkov where 900 innocents were murdered, including woman and children. And I thought he died at his house in the village of Traves in France? www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/threads/the-killing-of-jochen-peiper.2783/
@@kjragg1099 yep seems so. After the Molotov cocktails smashed through window/s he oddly went in/out the house, chucking papers and clothing out a window, 'til succumbing to the smoke. His body was identified by a neighbour on the cordoned scene, shortly after
@@camerong5513 that is strange. The clothes and papers must've had some sentimental value then (he was a writer too I think). Very interesting man indeed. I still think it's weird why he decided to settle in France of all places, despite being an SS man with Nazi war crimes under his belt.
you have several inaccuracies there, some important. His sentence was commuted, later amnestied by the US High Commissioner in Germany. There was not a second trial, and so there goes your "freed" as a result. He was finally paroled in late '56. He was in US prison/ POW camps for over 11 years, continuous. His residential property was in France, not Belgium. Assassinated ? I guess that's a not unreasonable conclusion. His house was fire bombed yet he kept going in/out of the burning house to throw his wife's clothes outside and papers
@@kjragg1099 well, he had days to weeks to decamp - he was warned again and again the house was going to be razed. The reason is clear - he made it so. He had fallen out with multiple employers in Germany, too bombastic and demanding for a war crim at Porsche, and later bringing their rep down, with his name being splashed on nazi-outing magazine/s. Yet, in '67 he publicly avowed his unremitting loyalty to Shitler's 3rd Reich, otherwise odd for someone with a better sense of self than he. Few Nazis that were not escaped to Spain, South America, USA, Middle East and those flown birds were unwilling/unable to revive national socialist movement in the Vatorland- it was economically booming with out it. So, the Col decried the "decadence", "materialism" of post war Germany, out of step with his desire for return to NS policies. Oddly, for a vain peacock of an officer, who appropriated stolen luxury cars, sports cars, an enemy light aircraft and got around in his SS dress uniform on a regular basis, riding pants, lanyards, cavalry horses he wanted Nazi ascetics, if not an illusion. He was a sensitive, emo, narcissistically so, guy, bitter about his years of penal punishment and abandonment. Then yet higher promotion snuffed out at Porsche, sued them, but lost. He complained the Germans, even some his old comrades, but not of his Shitler Youth days, had done him "so much harm". In fact, multiple of his subordinates had given him up in the Malmedy tribunal days, with damaging testimony about his long standing Genghis Khan terror doctrine in the East ie slaying of captured enemies, nearby civilians, killings of 2 POWs in Belgium in front him, once at his command, verbal order for "terror" in the Ardennes, forcing captured GI's to assist the SS battle prep and threatening a GI or two with shooting for being slow/dropping some Nazi equipment. Few German soldiers or SS staff visited him or even wrote him during the long years confined at Landsberg prison, he moaned. Alot of the comrades were dead or had nothing to do with the SS once the war ended, for one it was illegal. A publisher moved him on too, when his infamous rep started doing the rounds, when there were ongoing war crimes trials in the late '60s. He adopted a pen name in response and moved to a region in France well known to him, secluded and personally liked . I guess he wasn't any longer getting the narc supply in the Vatorland, either, he had thrived on from the Nazi upper hierarchy, its wives and concubines, staff, his ruthless occasional military commandment and long since past reckless, daring, battle successes. His kids were off at uni or soon to be and his son did not like a reputed Jew slayer for a daddy. Into the mix he would have had BPD so would have struggled with perceived/real abandonment in Germany - multiple jobs lost due to his dark history etc. I'm told the area was Vichy territory so he at first had Vichy police apparently looking to keep him safe. The mayor welcomed him to the town with a visa, knowing quite well the Col's history in the '30s/'40s. Yea weird, kyle. It could be said it did not turn out well for him in France - he and his wife, also an ex SS staff, only lived there in house for 4 years, before being well and truly smoked out
Actor? Unrepentantly smiling when sentenced to death -- he looks like an arrogant murderer to me. What's brave about inspecting concentration camps, working as Himler's right hand for years and then after the war he said he was soldier but not a Nazi. That's a coward's excuse. There's nothing to appreciate about a man participating in the genocide of Jews at concentration camps and barbarically murdering 100s of civilians for purposes of intimidation. A gross miscarriage of justice he was ever released from prison.
@benvolio mozart Peiper's S.S. men were said to have burned alive Russian civilians as reprisals for partisan attacks: Peiper and the Malmedy killers got commuted death-sentences because of the killing by U.S soldiers of unarmed S.S. men at the Dachau camp in 1945. Peiper got to live another 30 years before justice caught up with him in France ( that's assuming that he didn't stage his own death in order to start afresh somewhere far away).
@@jmy7622 Unless they did DNA tests on what was left of his body, there was no proof that he'd died in the "ambush". No-one-commies or any other group- has proved that they killed him.
In mano moments i.e. 27:97 you can spot Mrs Sigi Peiper in the audience wearing a black hat in the back. She is Peiper's wife and I recognize her by cross examinating the picture taken during those days.
Just for a little background here, the Malmedy Massacre was actually a series of incidents which occured in Beligium at the time of the Battle of the Bulge and it was when Waffen SS murdered 250 American prisoners of war and 100 Belgian citizens.
Dann solltest Du Dich besser informieren! Unsere Männer hatten absolut korrekt gehandelt. Kein toter US-Soldat wurde bestohlen. Aller Papiere , Fotos , Geld und Uhren waren bei den Männern verblieben.Das diese starben lag an unglücklichen Umständen zu den diese teilweise selbst beitrugen. Denn diese hatten Ihre Waffen wieder aufgenommen, so daß man annehmen mußte, das es sich um angreifende Soldaten handelte. Hier fand eine widerwärtige Propaganda gegen unsere Soldaten und unserem Volk statt.
@@jthrilla9147 -Porsche had to let him go. His notoriety was bad for sales. Then he worked at VW. Then became a military history translator. Lived in France and was murdered at age 61 when his house was set fire.
War is a nasty business it brings the worst in people out Unfortunately there are people among us that have no empathy no morals they are nasty When given the opportunity it all comes out It does not matter what race,color or religion they are, war gives them the opportunity of releasing their demons There are good and evil humans out there At times evil wins, it’s tragic
Sad, but true. World War II was one of the VERY few times were at least SOME of humanity's worst criminals were brought to justice. The Chinese and North Koreans largely got away with their evil in the Korean War, as did the Soviets from World War II clear up to 1991.
Where’s the sound on some of the most interesting sections. Such an important trial , you think they would have done a better job recording it with sound all the way through. Sheesh!
Blind allegiance to ideology and unquestioning obedience - this is a sad reminder of those dark times - a tragic lesson which humanity has failed to heed. The allies created the current age that has an unquestioning faith in consumerism and a rapacious need for 'growth' threatening the long term future of our planet. Incapable of making the necessary changes required for a more sustainable future, they've squandered the sacrifice of millions and created an impending nightmare for all humanity
Gappie Al Kebabi the Germans were ahead only in some areas. Other areas such as naval warfare, cryptology, and atomic weaponry, the allies had a clear advantage and technological superiority.
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Thank you for sharing this most extraordinary historical footage.
The quality of this footage is unbelievable. I have NEVER seen images from the forties that look so good...
You must have only seen video copies then. B&W film from the 40`is usually razor sharp, even better than this, when seen from a good print.
@@paullewis2413 I can understand the quality of the images at the time, but the ravages of time in storage on the media, even if transferred to other modern medias as the time progresses, I would expect some severe degradation. It has survived so well.
@@MrSuperheterodyne Master footage has propably been remastered along way
Probably directed by hollywood employees!
The most important part of a camera is the lens. If you have a cheap lens on a camera, the image's quality is not as good as what you get in a more expensive lens. I'm sure they used 16mm films in this trial which was the norm in those days.
"History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circles of those who were there" - Joachim Peiper
Bro why tf are there so many people defending the Germans in ww2 like wtf is wrong with y’all 😂😂
@@lorenzograham7854 mate since when did I say I was defending him? This quote has a lot of meaning, did you know that a number of americans committed various atrocities similar to peipers during the battle of the bulge, but of course it was covered up and nobody got in trouble. Its war, nobody is completely good.
@@hahahoodgoboom4778 yea mate I here you but some 500 german pows killed is nothing and most of them are ss shame on any person defending the ss🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@hahahoodgoboom4778 US troops never perpetrated any such wholesale slaughter as that committed by the 1st SS Panzer Division under the orders of Piper. Read about Piper and the 1st SS Panzer and their slaughter of civilians as well as soldiers. Study up. Joachim Piper died unrepentant and never addressed his orders to murder unarmed soldiers and civilians. Piper is what we would call today a evil shitbag.
@@lorenzograham7854 COS BRITS AND THE US ARE THE BIGEST CRIMINAL IN THE FACE OF HUMANITY..
Am I the only one who saw Peiper smirk after he was sentenced, he already knew what the sentence would be.
Very interesting historical material. Thank you uploader.
Pretty sure Peiper spoke better English than the translator.
French, english, italian, swedish and russian fluetly.
@@vilavelebita88And a better speller than you. 😄
@@beachcomber1able I speak 4 languages fluently. No need to prove it. Just like Obersturmbanfuehrer Joachim didn't.
Doviđenja, odjebi.
O Peiper era o cara então falando muitos linguagens
He spoke almost perfect English. Post-war, he worked as a book translator between English and German.
This is the best video (qualitywise) I've ever seen in the entire youtube community. Thank you uploader.
My Australian father was a Judge-Advocate at the Southern Pacific War Crimes Tribunals held in Rabaul, New Britain, from 1945-1947. Nearly 300 Japanese soldiers stood trial. 40 were acquitted, 73 were hung and the rest were committed to up to 30 years imprisonment. Copies of most of the affidavits of evidence against those hung were in my fathers papers which I read after his death in 1992. I cannot tell you of the unspeakable acts of barbarity that occurred against nurses, missionaries and Allied soldiers in captivity. What happened at Malmedy was a walk in the park apart from the loss of life.
My father was scarred for life from those two years of trials. My grandmother said she sent away a robust red-headed man and respected lawyer in 1942, to do his duty to defend his country, who was wounded twice and suffered from Malaria and nearly died. She said she got back a hunched over old man, with remnants of white whispy hair. He never practiced law again.
War crimes occur in all conflicts and on all sides, but it pains me to consider that of all nations that abhor such crimes, the United States itself refused to ratify its membership of the International Criminal Court (War Crimes) to prevent its own soldiers from being prosectuted for their own war crimes under international law. During the Nuremberg, Tokyo and Rabaul Tribunals after WW2, the US was very aggressive in prosecuting the war crimes of Germans and Japanese, but refused to do so against its own armed forces, many of whom committed equally heinous acts of murder as the SS did in the Malmedy incident.
Its epic hypocricy.
With the little (?) difference
that they caused the 2nd
WW, not the others!
More info here>Malmedy Massacre Video Link: th-cam.com/video/0BWyV7SV88c/w-d-xo.html
Executions Playlist Link: th-cam.com/play/PLstamcBT7yVKL0T9N9-PaBlLg2klxj_bH.html
I think allot of people are mad because he was so good at what he did.Himself,Wunsche,Meyer,all have fantastic stories.Both smart and corageous.
pff. His rubbish personality overtook his intellect, nor was he very practical. His courage was born in his impulsivity, recklessness, fantasy and self interest
Good? He wasn't good. He was well connected. He got the best assignments, the best weapons, his pick of troops. He failed on the Eastern Front, and he failed in Belgium.
"Age restricted based on community guidelines". I guess TH-cam doesn't want the childrens learning any of that history stuff.
You do know it shows people being hanged? There are many other vids on YT that talk about Malmedy without the hanging. To try to cite this as an example of YT deliberately not wanting kids to learn history is simply inaccurate
More info here>Malmedy Massacre Video Link: th-cam.com/video/0BWyV7SV88c/w-d-xo.html
Executions Playlist Link: th-cam.com/play/PLstamcBT7yVKL0T9N9-PaBlLg2klxj_bH.html
That’s your typical liberal right there.
@@sciflyernineteensixtynine6950 In early 1970's our high school class viewed raw/uncensored concentration camp footage which included piles of dead bodies being bulldozed into mass graves. I have always believed these scenes should be seen as they were filmed with no censorship. I have never had any issues after viewing them or reading about them....
@@joelonzello4189 not sure where you're coming from...high schoolers are not exactly children in US, maybe you are not like most people.
Piper very brave Tank commender. Europe needs men like this today.
Murderers? You are nuts! Bang
My fathers uncle,
Do not forget the burning of children in Vietnam.
Despite their crimes, I was impressed at their stoic behaviour at the sentencing. Aside from one of them that turned and rudely stomped away before they had finished speaking to him, not one of those guys flinched or even gulped etc. Bad people are not necessarily cowards it would seem.
Men and women = danger
@@joachim1628 What a load of crap. If Julius Streicher wasn't a "bad guy", nobody is a bad guy.
Don't try to blame young people for the atrocities the Nazis committed. The Hitler Jugend was under firm control until the very last days of the war, when the regime collapsed. They acted on the orders of the older men who commanded their units, and they, in turn, acted on the orders of the high officials, especially Hitler, the Supreme Commander of the German Armed Forces.
Sociopaths no doubt,,
@@lethe3939 the behavior of a sociopath which isn't surprising,,
@@lethe3939 well duhh,, this kind of war crime is right up there with ISIS and the Taliban Al Qaeda ( AKA, 9/11 ) war criminals who actually think there going to rule and control the world,, thank God American's have there second amendment that will never be infringe,, fact most war criminals or any criminals at that matter are sociopaths they have no mercy or morals.
I am English but you see the total discipline of the german man
sad to see.
The discipline ect. comes from the SS Junkerschule.
I like how Peiper smile after this joke called trial.
why.
@@patrickdaniels8942 why what?
yea, it's a good example of a depressed, narcissist in crisis desperately trying to soothe their ego
It's interesting that the officers got more lenient sentences than the soldiers. The whole affair and level of human suffering is so sad on both sides.
Couldn't work that one out . Wouldn't they have given the orders ?
They all knew it was over and now they meet their maker before he’ll
Neither of them whined for mercy. Neither of them cried. Neither of them acted like a rat. Paiper acted like a real commander with great character. And that mysterious smile of the Mona Lisa while hearing his death sentence ... Few people know that Peiper was fluent in English, but he did not want to speak this language in captivity.
People with great charisma, class and peace. It shows. Real soldiers. RESPECT.
Piper was a fool..
Wow. Thank you for publishing this important history.
This is fascinating to watch. Thanks for uploading...
oh I like this!!
Piper looks like a hollywood star.
He was so handsome.
@@evunialalavellan9180 And menacing.
Peiper spoke perfect English, sometimes he would correct the translator.
Joachim smiled when he heard his sentence
@@mookie2637 no the fuck he wasn't you gay
Snoopydoop Snoopydoop your mom is gay
@@mookie2637 you too stfu
@@PutinsMommyNeverHuggedHim of course you have a problem with gay people. Do you also have problems with people of color. how about the jews you fucking nazi. got you red handed
JP is made of steel ... smirked at a sentence of death by hanging - that's some guts right there.
Coward.
I had a uncle who served in ww2.He told me that they killed captured german soldiers and that the germans were not the only side of the war that did the same.
2 wrongs don't make a right. Read up on the 1 SS Panzer Div. and its long list of atrocities. These SS guys were nothing like the avg German soldiers. If a few rules were broke & some SS dudes didn't make it to a POW camp. Well, they pretty much deserved what they got.
@@SuperBigblue19 Then you are no better ,than those you accuse ,were you there?That you know what went on in that war,or any war.
I definitely wouldn't have to be there to know about this notorious outfit.
@@SuperBigblue19 So to you its numbers game. Sentence only those who commit more war crimes?
@@AndyP998 It's like the different degrees of murder. So yes, a few knuckleheads killing a few POW's is different than a battalion of executioners roaming the countryside Thats why we have different degrees of murder. The victim is still dead, but the circumstances decide the severity of the crime.
American soldiers murdered 80 German POWs at Chenogne and didn't even get a slap on the wrist.
Did you know, Peiper gets set free in 1956, and begins working with sales at Porsche. He later moves to France with his wife (pretty arrogant move), where he lives for many years, until he in 1976 agrees to attend in an interview about him. A few weeks after this interview is published, his house gets burned down with himself inside it, while his wife was visiting in Germany. They found a loaded .22 rifle by his side.
Kinda had it coming .rumour at the time it was french communists. But then other rumours he was done to cover up what he knew .... People like speculation
He could have run out of the house and saved his life. But he was trying to gather things, and also some of his wife's clothes. He was planning to move to Germany within days; his wife had already gone to Germany. He knew his life was in danger. That explains the guns. Had he left a day earlier he would have prob been safe in Germany.
@@halibut1249 most of us would pack our bags and leave the house straight away after being threatened like that. But not Joachim. The man had balls of steel. Too brave for his own good judging by the incredible stunts he pulled on the front line. Nothing fazed him and that was what caused his eventual downfall by the sounds of it.
Only the best work for the Porsche.
I think he went to France, as german "Nazi-hunters" never stop to harras war veterans.
France declared war on Germany and attacked first. France was defeated by Germany within 6 weeks and was under German occupation from June 40 to June 1944. More French people died in mass bombing during the Allied liberation than during the German conquest and during the entire occupation period! After that, the French, as the "victorious power", made extensive use of their right to get back at the Germans. Nevertheless, peace returned to Europe and I don't know what's "arrogant" about Peiper moving to France.
I realise that most of the defendant's had their sentences commuted but the question I have is this. What was the criteria for sentencing ? How did they separate the death penalty from imprisonment? Sounds like a numbers game by the judges to me as to appease Stalin and the French. The Waffen SS were brutal as we're many allied units. The RAF bombed Dresden twice in one evening just so they could kill the fire brigades after the initial bombing had caused a firestorm. To the victors go the spoils I guess and accountability is one of those advantages.
Thank you, mien herr.
which allied units specifically?
Some comments here were disgusting. This man was an accomplished soldier, he has beaten a lot of Americans in a fair fight, so they got back at him after the war. For months before trial him and his mates were brutally tortured and treated horribly. Decades later, he was murdered by a bunch of thugs, they found his dead body with a gun right next to him... He died like a man. And all those "nazi hunters" would probably squeal and beg for mercy if they were put in such position. My grandfather fought on the "other" side of that war, but I hold deep respect to men like Pieper. He was an accomplished warrior and a true defender of his country.
American soldiers were murdering POWs as well. Where were the trials for them?
Vinum Sabbathi Great question, but don't expect a decent answer from the morons who have stunk up this thread.
speedoflite1 Utterly incorrect. There was only one 'take no prisoners' order and that was for active Bolsheviks caught on the eastern front. Any other incorrect information you'd like to add?
Fuzz Garrett You need to read: "Massacres and Atrocities of World War II" by George Duncan" and "War without Mercy: Pacific War" by John Dower. - these and other sources discuss murder, abuse of POWs and civilians, retaliation, and counter-retaliation committed by ALL sides throughout Europe and Asia. I accept your apology in advance.
speedoflite1 You need to listen to the testimony of Hal McCown that took place right in this trial. Germans took plenty of prisoners on the western front and you'll see very clearly what their "standard operating procedure" was.
In that post you simply skirt around the flawed argument you made in the post before. Let me be clear: Nobody, including me, says the Germans didn't abuse any POWs from time to time, as did all sides. But you said it was "standard operating procedure" for Germans to murder prisoners on the western front, and that is utterly un true and no amount of semantics games on your part will change that.
You said: "[Killing prisoners] was SOP (standard operating procedure) per the Führer, "take no prisoners!"
Utterly false. The Wehrmacht manual was also very clear about this. You seem to forget that Germany also signed onto the Geneva Convention. Such 'standard operating procedure' would not be permissible under the Geneva Convention.
If you have evidence of a direct order from the high command telling the Wehrmacht or Waffen to summarily execute prisoners as "standard operating procedure," then either post that or stop the semantics games. MANY prisoners were taken on the western front. Hal McCown was one of many.
Is the full footage of the trial available anywhere?
God I’d love to see it. I’m sure one day more footage will pop up.
i'm impressed by the calmness of the accused soldiers
I was impressed when I see Jochen's smile when he received his sentence... Ha! But now I think I understand many things about him. lol.
@@fcmoralis probably just putting on a brave face. He was a narcissist with a big ego.
@@kjragg1099 Did you know him? ha! Tell me more... Please! haha!
@@fcmoralis nah it's called reading books. Give it a go, you might enjoy it!
@@kjragg1099 It's hard to say he had a big Ego when his soldiers always said he was a great leader and very charming. He knew how to use psichology, that's all. =)
Number 74 must have been really pissed off at having to wait until last only to find out that he was going to hang.
War Planner damn no spoiler alert
Is it just me or do people back in the 40's seem more calm then they do today with everyone bouncing off the walls?
Robin Hanson I have to give it to them. They took it like G’s.
Yes. More polite, more respectful of others, more respectful of themselves, and more honest and honorable.
@@Hambone571 yea, killing 55 million of each other in under 6 years was "respectful of themselves"...
Pervitin meth
Where was the trial for the Chenogne Massacre, Lippach massacre, Biscari massacre, what about all the Germans who surrendered on dday but were executed because the allies were ordered not to take prisoners. Or the 900,000 POWs starved to death by Eisenhower? I’m not saying what any of these men did was right, but we need to understand that in war it is a different situation, men are forced to do horrible things. Unless you have been in their shoes you have no right to judge any of them.
Jochen Peiper...."Kuno Von Dodenburg" in the SS Wotan by Leo Kessler (Chalres Whiting) Whiting knew Peiper personally and is one of our greatest historical writers. Jochen Peiper was released, but murdered in the 1976.
@comfortableman12 He was sentenced to death, and then after many years pardoned. Little is known of the process, and if every soldier would get what he deserves through the centuries, especially when it comes to american war criminality, there would be a large number of murdered american soldiers from all wars of the 20th century.
Younger men got DEATH penalty who were simply following orders and older got life sentences??? This is justice?
Good haircuts back in those days.
Nice haircut
Haircut name ?
Should have let the Red Army give them their haircuts and shaves.
@@Guneyli-78 hitler youth haircut
Yes, you rarely saw ss troops with man-buns 🤣
The anger becomes war and in the war there is no winners, just violence and destruction
yeah there are..... we won. we have the paperwork to prove it.
@@danielkokal8819 yes😁 some libs love their german heroes.
Mannn! People were Soo different in those times. I find it unbelievable that they Honorably took those Death Sentence with Soilders Pride!
Some guys even Bowed to the Judge after he Sentenced them to Death by Hanging. I Feel sorry for these guys and this was kind of sad. I'm sure mostof them didn't get a fair Trial and this was just American Vengeance upon them! They were defending thier Country and Following orders as Soilders. I'm amazed at thier courage and their honor to remain soilders to the end!
Much Respect to the German Soilders 👍
I was thinking the same.....they definitely kept pride until the end. They were a different breed back then.
Remember, during the war these guys saw death around them everywhere. Many prob avoided getting killed just by luck. Bullets and bombs very close. It psychologically braces you for death. Germans who worked in death camps put innocents to death everyday. All that exposure to death braces you to accept your fate, come what may. But none of these guys in the end got executed. Their sentences got commuted, at first to long prison time, then shorter prison time, by 1956 they were all released.
100% right.
Pretty hard to claim germans were only defending their country when they committed the malmady massacre in Belgium, a neutral country they had invaded twice, in 2 world wars, that GERMANY STARTED.
Please extract ur head outta ur azz before making such a STUPID claim.
Germany got exactly what it deserved.
I watched the entire video, no one bowed for there death sentence.
Joachim Pieper laughed , and that's the best you can do againts these puppets.He made feel them frustrated, their power is to scare you, but if you smile to the death, it's like to spit in their faces. He understood that this trial had nothing to do with the real justice.
He murdered pows and than whines about the consequences of it
@@Nolant.You don't know a thing about historial facts
Thank you for this upload.
The Victors write the history books!
And the losers massacre POWs.
@Maximilian Sebastian yes. Me too.
@@Horsemanray and yea, at least one German historian does disagree with the sentiment of "The Victors write the history books!" re this matter
On December 21, 1944, during the battle around Gleize, Peiper captured an American officer, Major McCown, who was leading one of the battalions of the 119th Infantry Regiment. Having heard about the Malmedy massacre, McCown personally asked Peiper about his fate and that of his men. McCown testified later that Peiper told him neither he nor his men were at any risk and that he (Peiper) was not accustomed to killing his prisoners. McCown noted that neither he nor his men were threatened in any manner.
While on duty in Italy, Peiper discovered that the Italian government had captured a group of Jews. He had them released to him, and he then set them all free. One of the Jews was a rabbi, who later wrote a testimony to Peiper's kindness during his war crimes trial.
+Leonardo Lupini It was a noblest man. He slandered.
Its called murderers and they were a group of young communists.They decapitaded his body before burning his house after they killed him.real heroes they were.
Peiper aint no murderer,those are on the other side of the table.
you know what a troll is?
You never run out of arguments,dont you
This video is MISLEADING, it says "trial uncut", but in fact, its all CUTS and even no audio. This video is horrible and a disappointment to those of us interested in history and wanting to actually see the UNCUT version of this important historical trial.
u will never get the truth they covered loads up himlers so called suicide was a load of bull a few have spokeen out about it but made out to be crazy or not there
Because the trial was a kangaroo court
@@kaa13 But why show some hangings? No one was executed as a result of the trial. Many got a death sentence, but they all where let go as US government found the trial to be a mock trial and evidence was tainted. Even though one today may have reversed that once again they freed all the prisoners. Peiper lived until 1976. So this video is massively misleading in a historic context.
It’s uncut is the reference length of film in a sense is not cut
@@teru797 You're just jealous.
OMG! This channel is literally better than the History Channel. I just found a diamond in the rough.
Does anyone know the name of the female translator of Peiper's testimony?
Dunno but she's saucy.
His name IS Terry she IS married with Patton
@@joseguerra2795 Full name?
@@joseguerra2795 Qué chucha?? jajajaja de dónde sacaste esa weá? jajajajaja!! dime... ChilenOoooo compatriota jajaja
@@fcmoralis ja ja...entre nos ... volá de uno
Had a good friend who was an us army guard at a POW camp in washington State
He said they never had an escape attempt at the camp till after the war but, had several attempts when they were on the train back to the east coast to repatriate the persons back to Germany at end of the war.. they didnt want to go back to Germany life was too good here.
That and German POWs were being repatriated into the Soviet controlled Eastern Sector, not a pleasant place for returning German POWs.
Those familiar with Charles Whitings pseudonym "Leo Kessler" Writing about SS Wotan, will understand that Peiper is "Kuno Von Dodenburg". Charles Whiting is probably the greatest wwii historian writer to exist.
Wowww... you opened my eyes about something very interesting... Thanks for your comment. :o
What is most impressive is to see all those childish faces and to think that they were all ready to mercilessly kill anyone who came before him and that he was an enemy.
Remember ISIS in Syria and Irak. They were as young as the men in the malmedy massacre trial. Babyfaces are able to kill cruelly.
Ultimately the sentences of the Malmedy defendants were commuted to life imprisonment and then to time served. Peiper's sentence was commuted to 35 years in 1954 and he was released in December 1956, the last of the Malmedy condemned to be freed. He had served 11 and a half years in prison.
Was there a Biscari Massacre Investigation Report or video recording of the trials, as we seeing above, or are war crime trials and reports only exclusive for the defeated? At Biscari, a full 18 months before Malmedy where 76 Italian and German POWs, (and 8 or more civilians at Ciancatti) were gunned down by soldiers of the American 45th. division. There were other incidents, for example on June 6th at Audouville-la-Hubert, (note this is still more than 6 months before the Malmedy incident) where 30 wounded Wehrmacht POWs were executed on the spot and their bodies left to rot and mish-mashed by Allied tanks and GMCs!
yea? The SS had been murdering POW's since Poland.
Some isolated, regretted incidents led by an Allied junior officer or NCO is quite different to an operational policy of terror, aimed at both POW's and civilians.
@@camerong5513 That´s not true! The Waffen-SS regulary sent captives to the backlines. They were sent to POW-Camps. Wounded enemies got medical treatment just like the own soldiers. Exceptions prove the rule!
@@lacertabilineata9337 you can make all your protests but I didn't lie
@@camerong5513 Not a single war party can acquit itself of the accusation of having shot prisoners. But at least the Germans never had an explicit order from the top not to take prisoners or shoot prisoners of war. The Americans shot en masse German soldiers who surrendered, for example, in the "Battle of the Bulge" or "D-Day". Even after the capitulation, masses of Germans were shot down in cold blood with their hands raised.
@@lacertabilineata9337 think you'll find that any battle of the bulge killings were retaliation for Malmedy
The death sentence on Peiper was commuted, he was eventually murdered in 1976 in France of all places.
Indeed,he chose to live in France.IF he was a true war criminal why didn't he go to South America instead?
He got to live longer than he should have
@@feikotemme8736 May be he hoped to make influences for Germany society to comeback to nacionalsocializm
@@feikotemme8736 - the Nazi's who fled to S. Amer. after the war (Adolph Eichmann, Joseph Mengele) were running from prosecution. Peiper WAS prosecuted as you can see in this vid, and served ten years in prison, then released, free to live where he wanted. That doesn't mean there weren't people who would kill him if given the chance. Maybe he would've been safer in S.Amer. or if he changed his name or identity, or avoided places like France that Hitler's Germany seized during the war.
We will all stand before a Higher court one day .
Well said
And the judge will know who was an avid filthy low life lier
Yes and even the so-called victors will once face the Highest Court ..
Incredible that so many young mostly fit soldiers waiting calmly to be sentenced to death instead of jumping from the bench and try to kill few more, some even could escape.
They had nothing to loose
Most of these guys had their death sentences commuted and nearly all of them served a fraction of time in prison.
The story is that this took place during the period when the British, French and Americans suddenly realized that they were going to become embroiled in a conflict with the Soviet Union. This conflict was known as the Cold War. The Western Allies recognized that Germany would become a valuable partner in this Cold War and that carrying out a lot of these sentences to the fullest would only further alienate a defeated German populace and the German government. So many of the death sentences were later commuted and prison sentences were cut measurably short.
@@geodes4762 Operation "Paperclip"
@@zeorangervred5222 its not operation paperclip because these guys never contributed to their field anymore. Most of them went to work in a factory after they served their sentence. Piper was on death row for years and was murdered later by french communist. The germans specifically offered to organise a division from former ss troops to fight against the soviets but it was refused.
@@mtrunkello ik
When people have committed brutal acts it leaves an imprint -- a monstrous aspect eludes them and shows through.
the cameraman caught the SS Col red-handed
As all men will die, both "innocent" and the guilty, God will judge all our lives, our thoughts and hearts. No one will escape. God will know the difference between duty and willful killing. Just as many innocent are wrongly convicted, many of the guilty go free. God cannot be fooled, nor can He learn anything. God knows everything.
Notice how J. Peiper didn’t click his heels and stood with clenched fists... A gesture of disrespect to the authorities!
slay
Ya complaining about something happened 76 years ago? what a joke.
Who’s complaining??? I was just pointing out.
Peiper knew trial was maquerade
Those was all heroes!!!
nice try, mine herr
Indeed, brave men judged by hypocrites, let's not forget that Allies gave us to the soviet union,Allies helped communists grab the power. Of course they brushed 🇷🇺 atrocities under the carpet...
@@danielburt7849protestieren sie kleine puppen 😂😂😂 bist du eine kleine Kommunisten? Meine herr...
„Falls Sie mich attackieren, würde ich keinen Finger rühren. Falls Sie meine Männer attackieren - unfair und ungerecht - werden Sie mich auf den Barrikaden finden.“
(Joachim Peiper)
GOTT MIT UNS
We were in Malmedy June 2019 on our Beyond Band of Brothers D-day 75 tour!
28:45 never was afraid of any damage!!!!
ObersturmbannfuhrerSS joackeim peiper ‘ “I salute you”
Very well done. Now, after we disposed them all, lets proceed to the My Lai incident.
There was one well after Mai Lai, during W. Bush's presidency. Why? Because single individuals can break down, go rogue or be wrong; not state sanctioned. You're not as knowledgeable as you insinuate
Ultimately the sentences of the Malmedy defendants were commuted to life imprisonment and then to time served. Peiper's sentence was commuted to 35 years in 1954 and he was released in December 1956, the last of the Malmedy condemned to be freed. He had just served 11 and a half years in prison. During the night of 13/14 July 1976 (Bastille Day), Peiper's home in France was attacked. In the ruins, Peiper's charred corpse was found together with a 22 caliber rifle and a pistol. The perpetrators were never identified. A comunist group calling itself "The Avengers" claimed responsibility for his death.
It is odd to me that he ultimately chose to live in France. He wasn't a stupid man, and must have felt safe enough... big mistake.
antonio torres Communists murdering Nazis, that’s hilarious.
Ulrich Esser It’s not fair is it Ulrich? It’s just not fair. Bloody capitalists, Jews, national and international socialism, it’s just not fair. You should write a book about it.
I need to shake those guys hands ! Well done
@@joeroganjosh9333 It is just a fact
I wonder if these men realized how huge their part in Earths history was. They are still known around the world and taught in schools 70+ years later.
"Taught in schools"? You mean they get mentioned in passing as part of the German armed forces? So are all the other soldiers in WWII. The most important fact about these soldiers is that they LOST, they were BEATEN, that their "racial superiority" was shown to be a fantasy by their DEFEAT.
@@daebak6974 They were much better soldiers than any other soldiers in the world, you dope. That's why it took the U.S., Russia and Britain to defeat them -- and then only by firebombing a million civilians to death.
@@hurryandleave9680 They were good soldiers, well trained and disciplined.
But I urge you to read "Null acht funfzehn" (08/15), a novel by Hans Helmut Kirst, who served in the Wehrmacht.
The title is the mythical number of the "rule" that turns everything into chaos, incompetence, and bullshit. A bit like "Snafu" in the US -- "Situation Normal, All Fucked Up". Or Fubar -- "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition".
In the novel, a bestseller in Germany, Kirst shows us the massive incompetence, stupidity, and chaos that existed behind the propaganda images purveyed by the Nazi regime.
Another example is the famous incident where Goering, visiting the Westwall, was told that some Allied bombers had just flown over his location. Goering denied it, but the officer insisted that he had seen them himself. Goering then yelled "I order you that there were no planes!" The officer saluted and said "Jawohl!", but the sarcastic look on his face was remembered by all who were present.
Goering was the genius who told the German people that his preparations for air defense were so perfect that if any Allied planes got through, "My name is Meyer!" People remembered this idiotic outburst when the German cities were being bombed into rubble.
Hitler thought his armies would easily dispose of the Red Army, and expected to wrap up his Russian blitzkrieg by October at the latest. Therefore it was decided that the German troops would not be issued any winter clothing. "Bad for morale! Anyway, we'll be out of there long before the first snow falls, so why scare the troops by handing out snow pants and mittens?" This did not work out very well: the Germans were still in the USSR, trying to defeat the Red Army long after winter had begun, and the German soldiers had to deal with the bitter cold Russian winter wearing their summer fatigues.
When Mussolini visited Germany before the war, Hitler wanted to impress him by showing off his troops involved in war games. When Mussolini's son in law, Ciano, later asked him how the German troops had performed, he said "Nothing special, same as our troops."
08/15 shows how "elite" the German troops were at ground level, where loudmouth NCOs bellowed contradictory orders and threats at the enlisted men, and nobody knew what the hell was going on most of the time.
Why did the German troops perform as well as they did? They didn't necessarily perform well. But they did perform better than their opponents much of the time, and that was enough to win the victories they had. After 1942, the Red Army improved greatly, and at Stalingrad it gained the initiative and never lost it afterwards. The Western Allies were never as good as the Germans, but they had such overwhelming material superiority that it didn't matter -- they were always going to win, the Germans didn't have a chance.
The most important stupidity the Germans committed was to go to war against the three greatest powers in the world at one time. This was suicidal for a medium sized country easily accessible from all sides, and close enough to the enemy to be subjected to mass bombing that effectively destroyed Germany's capacity to defend itself. Added to that the abominable behavior of Germans throughout Europe, but especially in the East, gave strong motivation to the Red Army soldiers as they marched through the areas that had been under German rule and saw what the Germans had done.
Yes, German soldiers were better trained and fought more effectively, man for man, than their enemies. But that in itself meant nothing -- Germany guaranteed its own defeat by invading the USSR, and then declaring war on the US. That stupidity was Hitler's, and was shared by his generals, who for some reason obeyed this jumped up corporal as if he were some kind of military genius. Their duty to their country was to overthrow Hitler and save millions of German lives and prevent the destruction of the country. They failed to act on this highest duty -- to their own people -- and in doing so betrayed their country and dishonored themselves and trampled the traditions of the Prussian Army.
@@daebak6974 what did u say theres no chance in hell in reading that
Too bad you can only read ads and propaganda. They're designed for a 4th grade reading level, which you can struggle through, slowly. But when it comes to writing aimed at adults, you are lost.
I have no obligation to spoon feed information to you. In fact, no one has that obligation. Upgrade your reading skills, don't tell everybody else to talk down.
I SEE No fear in their faces as they knew already they would set free soon or latter despite their death sentences... . As their dream came true, all set free including Peiper...strange world !! p.s i read their history in Wikipedia
are you on the spectrum?
33.35 Peiper's English is obviously very good as he knows exactly what the interpreter is saying!
And so what ?
@@giulianiraymond330 Just saying.
He also spoke french fluently
@@lethe3939 He was very inteligent and smart.
Just visiting the comment section too see what the historians have to say.
Just visiting the germans who are comming here to see the crimes commited by them.
It always amazes me that condemned persons are so calm on the scaffold. I think I;d be kicking and clawing all the way.
Indeed! But even the victims of mass shootings (we alle seen the footage) seem to be very calm, even if they know they gonna get shot!
@@TPSTraining Yes, agree. Perhaps a calm comes over people when they know for certain that their last minute has arrived?
@Rich Not if death is totally unexpected, like dying in your sleep, the best way to go.
I saw a WWII POW picture of a Japanese soldier with sword raised over his head, face contorted with rage, about to behead a stooped but dignified blond boy/young man who looked as if he was simply examining the ground.
One of so many cases of victor's justic.
Jochen Peiper was an exemplary soldier and officer.
No war crimes have occurred in Malmedy. First of all, the US soldiers surrendered after a first fight against the Kampfgruppe Peiper. The German Vorauskommando had to continue attacking and ordered the prisoners to surrender to the advancing units. The US soldiers then picked up their weapons again and were eliminated by advancing German units. That's the truth.
Piper is so handsome and those Waffen soldiers look so cool! I like them how they stand.
Ironic that LTC Peiper spoke fluent French and English and in fact corrected the translators (not shown in these videos). This was an honorable man that took responsibility for the actions of his men good or bad. Didn't not put blame on anyone else and spoke the truth. LTC Peiper is a soldier's soldlier not some murdering Nazi. There is a saying in the military (pick your service) it not the right way or wrong way but the Army way. There is a huge difference between justice served and vengeance of the victors....
The German officers are cultivated people. When traveling in France you have to speak French, otherwise you get no tea or whatsoever. If you're interested, there is a fine biography of LTC Peiper. RIP
Your loved Peiper executed civilians in Stavelot, Belgium. This fanatic Nazi-Soldier got his penalty in France, indeed.
@@tumekkan learn from the past i guess
@@camerong5513 i am a german philologist and i know lots of about the european politics and history than you guess.i offer you to read the biography of Peiper and search about him a little bit.maybe you can discriminate the difference between a soldier and a murderer after doing that.
@@tumekkan oh great. So just a terrorist not a murderer. Thanks
I'm sure most people caught the smirk on Peipers face when he was sentenced.
absolute
He knew it was a show trial,he knew the sentance before it was announced.
@@paullooney8960 yes and he later got top work position in a german Automobile enterprise. Im sure there were still people who helped him and others
@@Fantomas4616 you forget to mention he was let go because of his background.
@@Fantomas4616 These men got later top positions because they were top men. They were our elite. Unlike today's elite, these men were highly intelligent, highly educated, and very capable. The fact that they were with the SS was a major professional obstacle at the time, but almost all of these formerly "high-ranking" individuals later went on to have good professional careers.
Thank you for posting this video is unusual..
None of the convicts has actually been executed. Everyone has served a prison sentence.
Mathias Dreßke which is far better than the justice they would have meted out and did mete our. The Nazis sense of justice was the most vile that has ever come into Western European life. Their hatred of non Germanic races resulted in the worst acts of human cruelty. The history books are filled with them.
LIES
@@quentinquentin6752 "The history books are filled with them."
Aaaaahhh, I understand.
One question. written by ......... ?
@@quentinquentin6752
Stupid fuck
@@rhysnichols8608 oh yes! That definitely won the argument. Tell you what genius, so see how the nazis tested poles, Slovaks, Russians, Czechs etc etc. You might be beyond education and reason, perhaps the only thing that can save you is prayer.
these guys received a fair trial which is more that what those guys gave to their prisoners
The death sentences were commuted because the confessions obtained were the result of physical torture.
@@HandGrenadeDivision And you know this how ?, let's hear your case with your evidence to back up what you say for these scum vile pig murderer's.
All the men taken prisoner at Dunkirk survived the war ( Less one) in POW camps as did the airmen who bomb their cities.
My father was a WW 2 combat Vet and he was told that if they captured surrendered SS troops they were to execute them. So the USA is not so clean after all. This is not to excuse anything done by the Germans. Just remember that the US and EU media is totally kosher owned.
I'm wondering when they are going to trial the Americans who shot and killed about 60 German POW's on jan 1st 1945 as a revenge for the Malmedy incident. Also the numerous other cases where groups of captive German soldiers were killed by their American captors. The Germans at least admit there were people who committed crimes during the war, what disgusts me is that the Americans still pretend they are all angels.
You could tell how happy Sep was when he heard life as opposed to hanging he even bowed his head a bit.
Ya almost if he already knew the verdict.... he nodded as soon as he came forth...
None were ultimately hanged.
@@halibut1249 none of them were hung?
@@bloof5455 - no, their sentences kept getting reviewed, first commuted to life in prison, then gradually reduced down to twelve years, and then released early, in the mid 1950's. My personal opinion is that once they executed the top Nazi's at Nuremberg, the tide of public opinion started shifting, away from all these military tribunal prosecutions of rank & file military, and to focus on rebuilding Germany.
Der Sieger schreibt die Geschichte ! LEIDER !
Stop excusing war crimes with this tired old line.
Du bist dumm ??
find an Armee that can win then, first
So explain how Virgil P. Larry Jr points to Georg Fleps (accused No. 14) of shooting down 3 American POW's in cold blood. Fleps is the cannon loader for Franz Siptrott and was several hundred metres away in his tank when the alleged action took place.
Now with that explain to us, or should I how he could pick out the Gun Loader? I would recommend you think about what a Gun Loader would look like during combat.
Now can you provide the ref for the autopsies and was it in the U.N. experts report?
6:42 all of those empty pin holes on his once-perfect uniform where countless medals once were. That must have driven the Germans insane and almost a fate worse than death.
You seem to think that Germans were mostly Nazi militarists who worshiped medals and other such crap. They were not. They never had been. Millions of Germans were socialists and communists; many were pacifists who hated war and those who "honor" it.
It is not a "fate worse than death" to have your medals (the British call them "gongs") taken away. Only war crazed idiots think that way. You may be one of these. If so, you should realize that most people regard such ideas as little short of crazy, and many regard them as a dangerous form of insanity.
daebak69... You fail to accept the fact- these soldiers were NOT Wehrmacht Soldiers, but volunteers in the SS
@@noretreat151 Some were volunteers, many were forced recruits drawn from among POWs. The Wehrmacht included all German armed forces. You mean they were not in the German Army (Heer). However Waffen SS divisions were often placed under the command of Army generals as part of a larger force.
Army commanders often placed the Waffen SS divisions in the forefront of the attack since they were often fanatical, and did not shrink from taking severe casualties. By doing this, the officers saved the lives of their Army troops, and got rid of some of the fanatics that wanted to keep the war going so they could get "glory".
@@daebak6974 yea? Peiper did look none too happy.
I read that a Rabbi gave a personal reference for Peiper at his trial, saying how Peiper had taken control of a group of captured Jews from the axis Italians
and then released them.
No doubt towards the end of the war Peiper wanted to save his skin, and made a few good acts to make him look better in trial.
@@coloradoing9172It's a standard American excuse for not admitting that Germans aren't just beasts. Joachim Peiper didn't need to "look good" in front of the allied victors. No one from the Waffen SS ever tried to save their necks this sleazy way.
@@coloradoing9172
So killing PoWs after
releasing Jews makes
him look better?
33:45...sneaky bastard. He knew English!
Kurt Cobain if he cut his hair would look like Joachim Peiper
Joachim Pieper, SS Panzer tank commander, pulled out of Russia for the Dec ‘44 Ardennes attack, didnt take prisoners. He, in fact, gave orders to kill the GIs taken prisoner at Malmady. In this court he was sentenced to death, but sentence was commuted by a German court. He was tried again, but was freed. Finally, Pieper ended up on his farm in Belgium. On night he was assassinated on his farm - no one was ever tried for his killing.
His unit, known as the "Blowtorch Battalion", also burned and slaughtered two Soviet villages near Kharkov where 900 innocents were murdered, including woman and children. And I thought he died at his house in the village of Traves in France? www.thefewgoodmen.com/thefgmforum/threads/the-killing-of-jochen-peiper.2783/
@@kjragg1099 yep seems so. After the Molotov cocktails smashed through window/s he oddly went in/out the house, chucking papers and clothing out a window, 'til succumbing to the smoke. His body was identified by a neighbour on the cordoned scene, shortly after
@@camerong5513 that is strange. The clothes and papers must've had some sentimental value then (he was a writer too I think). Very interesting man indeed. I still think it's weird why he decided to settle in France of all places, despite being an SS man with Nazi war crimes under his belt.
you have several inaccuracies there, some important. His sentence was commuted, later amnestied by the US High Commissioner in Germany. There was not a second trial, and so there goes your "freed" as a result. He was finally paroled in late '56. He was in US prison/ POW camps for over 11 years, continuous. His residential property was in France, not Belgium. Assassinated ? I guess that's a not unreasonable conclusion. His house was fire bombed yet he kept going in/out of the burning house to throw his wife's clothes outside and papers
@@kjragg1099 well, he had days to weeks to decamp - he was warned again and again the house was going to be razed.
The reason is clear - he made it so. He had fallen out with multiple employers in Germany, too bombastic and demanding for a war crim at Porsche, and later bringing their rep down, with his name being splashed on nazi-outing magazine/s. Yet, in '67 he publicly avowed his unremitting loyalty to Shitler's 3rd Reich, otherwise odd for someone with a better sense of self than he. Few Nazis that were not escaped to Spain, South America, USA, Middle East and those flown birds were unwilling/unable to revive national socialist movement in the Vatorland- it was economically booming with out it. So, the Col decried the "decadence", "materialism" of post war Germany, out of step with his desire for return to NS policies. Oddly, for a vain peacock of an officer, who appropriated stolen luxury cars, sports cars, an enemy light aircraft and got around in his SS dress uniform on a regular basis, riding pants, lanyards, cavalry horses he wanted Nazi ascetics, if not an illusion. He was a sensitive, emo, narcissistically so, guy, bitter about his years of penal punishment and abandonment. Then yet higher promotion snuffed out at Porsche, sued them, but lost. He complained the Germans, even some his old comrades, but not of his Shitler Youth days, had done him "so much harm". In fact, multiple of his subordinates had given him up in the Malmedy tribunal days, with damaging testimony about his long standing Genghis Khan terror doctrine in the East ie slaying of captured enemies, nearby civilians, killings of 2 POWs in Belgium in front him, once at his command, verbal order for "terror" in the Ardennes, forcing captured GI's to assist the SS battle prep and threatening a GI or two with shooting for being slow/dropping some Nazi equipment. Few German soldiers or SS staff visited him or even wrote him during the long years confined at Landsberg prison, he moaned. Alot of the comrades were dead or had nothing to do with the SS once the war ended, for one it was illegal. A publisher moved him on too, when his infamous rep started doing the rounds, when there were ongoing war crimes trials in the late '60s. He adopted a pen name in response and moved to a region in France well known to him, secluded and personally liked . I guess he wasn't any longer getting the narc supply in the Vatorland, either, he had thrived on from the Nazi upper hierarchy, its wives and concubines, staff, his ruthless occasional military commandment and long since past reckless, daring, battle successes. His kids were off at uni or soon to be and his son did not like a reputed Jew slayer for a daddy. Into the mix he would have had BPD so would have struggled with perceived/real abandonment in Germany - multiple jobs lost due to his dark history etc.
I'm told the area was Vichy territory so he at first had Vichy police apparently looking to keep him safe. The mayor welcomed him to the town with a visa, knowing quite well the Col's history in the '30s/'40s.
Yea weird, kyle. It could be said it did not turn out well for him in France - he and his wife, also an ex SS staff, only lived there in house for 4 years, before being well and truly smoked out
Why in the FUCK is there no sound during most of it? Dammit man. I wanted to listen to their remarks and testimony. Dammit man!
Joachim Pieper looks like an actor and I appreciate the way all of his men faced these trials bravely.
Actor? Unrepentantly smiling when sentenced to death -- he looks like an arrogant murderer to me. What's brave about inspecting concentration camps, working as Himler's right hand for years and then after the war he said he was soldier but not a Nazi. That's a coward's excuse. There's nothing to appreciate about a man participating in the genocide of Jews at concentration camps and barbarically murdering 100s of civilians for purposes of intimidation. A gross miscarriage of justice he was ever released from prison.
Respect for Peiper! A true leader and warrior.
ok so are you like gay orrrrr
@@martymcflyer8487 ok SORRY he's pretty goddamn
They got away with it in the end: the death-sentences were commuted and then their prison-sentences were cut short, too.
@benvolio mozart Peiper's S.S. men were said to have burned alive Russian civilians as reprisals for partisan attacks: Peiper and the Malmedy killers got commuted death-sentences because of the killing by U.S soldiers of unarmed S.S. men at the Dachau camp in 1945. Peiper got to live another 30 years before justice caught up with him in France ( that's assuming that he didn't stage his own death in order to start afresh somewhere far away).
He was murdered by communist criminals who need to be dealt with..Try learning actual facts instead of watching propaganda and Hollywood films.
@@jmy7622 Unless they did DNA tests on what was left of his body, there was no proof that he'd died in the "ambush". No-one-commies or any other group- has proved that they killed him.
@@jmy7622 Communists did a good job on him.
james mackay
99% of Americans are educated only by Zionist propaganda
In mano moments i.e. 27:97 you can spot Mrs Sigi Peiper in the audience wearing a black hat in the back. She is Peiper's wife and I recognize her by cross examinating the picture taken during those days.
Just for a little background here, the Malmedy Massacre was actually a series of incidents which occured in Beligium at the time of the Battle of the Bulge and it was when Waffen SS murdered 250 American prisoners of war and 100 Belgian citizens.
Dann solltest Du Dich besser informieren! Unsere Männer hatten absolut korrekt gehandelt. Kein toter US-Soldat wurde bestohlen. Aller Papiere , Fotos , Geld und Uhren waren bei den Männern verblieben.Das diese starben lag an unglücklichen Umständen zu den diese teilweise selbst beitrugen. Denn diese hatten Ihre Waffen wieder aufgenommen, so daß man annehmen mußte, das es sich um angreifende Soldaten handelte. Hier fand eine widerwärtige Propaganda gegen unsere Soldaten und unserem Volk statt.
Why is there No sound during testimonies.. I know it was recorded
Just posted some testimony to not take prisoners and inflict terror. "Malmedy war crimes trial testimony, Dachau, Germany May 1946"
5.08 Joachim Peiper - tough guy..
Of course, he was the Oberst ♥ Lovely... (sighs)
Military intel let him live cannot believe he worked as a salesman at Porsche after the war even after what he did in malmady
Just another Nazi. Most of this lot were not messing about when it came to violence . His military prowess is massively inflated thou
@@jthrilla9147 -Porsche had to let him go. His notoriety was bad for sales. Then he worked at VW. Then became a military history translator. Lived in France and was murdered at age 61 when his house was set fire.
@@halibut1249 holyshit they def killed him n blamed it on fire
WHO SAID war was fair? war is never fair.
Damn Joachim Peiper is so handsome
He was very handsome.
Read here for the full story:: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_massacre_trial
It’s interesting to see the body language between Peiper and the girl translating.
Why? What did you observe?
War is a nasty business it brings the worst in people out
Unfortunately there are people among us that have no empathy no morals they are nasty
When given the opportunity it all comes out
It does not matter what race,color or religion they are, war gives them the opportunity of releasing their demons
There are good and evil humans out there
At times evil wins, it’s tragic
Sad, but true. World War II was one of the VERY few times were at least SOME of humanity's worst criminals were brought to justice. The Chinese and North Koreans largely got away with their evil in the Korean War, as did the Soviets from World War II clear up to 1991.
Where’s the sound on some of the most interesting sections. Such an important trial , you think they would have done a better job recording it with sound all the way through. Sheesh!
Hmmm...I may be wrong, but it seems like ."Malmedy Massacre Trial Uncut" has been cut...
Hmmm... I'm correct that the clear confession was uncut. Score
Sentencing three Khmer Rouge perpetrators cost hundreds of millions of dollars and took many years. The 1940s were so much more efficient...
Blind allegiance to ideology and unquestioning obedience - this is a sad reminder of those dark times - a tragic lesson which humanity has failed to heed. The allies created the current age that has an unquestioning faith in consumerism and a rapacious need for 'growth' threatening the long term future of our planet. Incapable of making the necessary changes required for a more sustainable future, they've squandered the sacrifice of millions and created an impending nightmare for all humanity
Victors vengance
@@greyflier6923 actually it was a tribunal because no evidence needed to be brought forth to the accused.
Boo hoo Nazi lover
Gappie Al Kebabi the Germans were ahead only in some areas. Other areas such as naval warfare, cryptology, and atomic weaponry, the allies had a clear advantage and technological superiority.
@@jimmyjones9775Cryptography? The German Enigma machine is still classified...
Fred Smith What is your point? Enigma was cracked in WW2 by the allies lol. The Germans were behind the allies in cryptology.