He was
from S S waffen in the armoured formation that took part in battle of bulge in
the final stages of WW II.it was a decisive battle most fiercely fought .
Jochim Peiper , SS lt Col was the commanding officer of the Waffen regiment
that formed the leading formation of the Panzer corps. At Malmedy during the battle
, Eighty US soldiers who Surrendered from a artillery reconnaissance battalion
were gunned down by Peipers unit while few escaped.There has been some
confusion about the incident. It was claimed that the prisoners tried to escape
and fired from their dropped guns and waffen SS soldiers had to retaliate.
After the war , the allies arrested the members of the unit and they were tried
for war crimes at Dachau camp by Us military tribunal and he was one of the
accused in a group of 74 members and he was sentenced to life term that in the
end was commuted to 15 years prison term. His trial number was 37
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