He was
from S S waffen in the armored 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 Ist Panzer SS division of 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 given death sentence. later it was
reviewed and made into life term as prison sentence during review.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. The sentences were reviewed .All death sentences were reduced to
life term and few year prison terms and defendants were released by 1956.His
trial number was 14
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