He was a
SS waffen official 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 , surrendered US soldiers eighty in numbers were gunned down by peipers
unit.There has been some confusion about the incident. After the war , the
allies arrested the members of the unit and they were tried for war crimes at
Dachau By Us military tribunal and he was one of the accused in a group of 74
members and he was given death sentencen that finally was reduced to 20 yeras in prison
. This trial created great stir and Amercian justice was blamed and highest
courts of USA were involved apart from International Court on the way this
trial was conducted and the court acted. All death sentences were reduced to
life term and lesse prison terms and defendants were released by 1956.His trial
no was 26
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