Martin Antonenko
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The Malmedy massacre - a war crime ...
On December 17, 1944, members of the "Kampfgruppe Peiper" murdered under the orders of SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper ...
... during the "Ardennes Offensive" near Malmedy in Belgium at least 82 prisoners of war from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion of the United States Army ...:
Peipers Kampfgruppe was an association of about 1000 men and 100 armored vehicles of the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler".
For the Battle of the Bulge, the combat group of the 6th SS Panzer Army under SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer and Colonel General of the Waffen-SS, Josef Dietrich ...
... assigned whose attack spearhead she should provide. The task of Peiper's association was the rapid advance to the Maas bridges at Huy and the opening of a corridor for troops following ...
54 GIs, including the actor Charles Durning ...
... survived the Malmedy massacre without being noticed by the SS troops and fled after the German troops withdrew.
After the end of the war, the Malmedy trial took place in Dachau in May 1946, during which the involved SS men, who could still be tracked down by the Allies, were brought to justice ...:
There were 43 death sentences and 22 life sentences, most of which were later overturned (death sentences) and softened (prison sentences).
The last to be released was the SS man Hubert Huber - he was let go on January 29, 1957 ...
The commander of the combat group, Joachim Peiper (the next picture shows him in court)
... was also sentenced to death as a war criminal.
The Commander in Chief of the U.S. Forces in Europe, Thomas T. Handy ...
... pardoned Peiper on January 31, 1951 to life imprisonment.
In 1956, Peiper was released early.
In the 1960s, Peiper moved to Traves (France) ...
... which led to heated debates in the French press and public, which culminated in the demand for his expulsion. The newspaper "L'Humanité", the central organ of the French Communist Party, campaigned for Peiper's expulsion.
On the night of July 14-15, 1976, an exchange of fire broke out in Peiper's house in Traves, in which Peiper apparently fired several shots himself. His house was set on fire and in the ruin the police later found Peiper's charred body with a fatal gunshot wound in the chest ...:
The fact was never solved.
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There is now a break in this section because I will be traveling to Odessa in a moment.
It continues here on January 6th.
Happy Holidays to all of you!
On December 17, 1944, members of the "Kampfgruppe Peiper" murdered under the orders of SS-Standartenführer Joachim Peiper ...
... during the "Ardennes Offensive" near Malmedy in Belgium at least 82 prisoners of war from Battery B of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion of the United States Army ...:
Peipers Kampfgruppe was an association of about 1000 men and 100 armored vehicles of the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler".
For the Battle of the Bulge, the combat group of the 6th SS Panzer Army under SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer and Colonel General of the Waffen-SS, Josef Dietrich ...
... assigned whose attack spearhead she should provide. The task of Peiper's association was the rapid advance to the Maas bridges at Huy and the opening of a corridor for troops following ...
54 GIs, including the actor Charles Durning ...
... survived the Malmedy massacre without being noticed by the SS troops and fled after the German troops withdrew.
After the end of the war, the Malmedy trial took place in Dachau in May 1946, during which the involved SS men, who could still be tracked down by the Allies, were brought to justice ...:
There were 43 death sentences and 22 life sentences, most of which were later overturned (death sentences) and softened (prison sentences).
The last to be released was the SS man Hubert Huber - he was let go on January 29, 1957 ...
The commander of the combat group, Joachim Peiper (the next picture shows him in court)
... was also sentenced to death as a war criminal.
The Commander in Chief of the U.S. Forces in Europe, Thomas T. Handy ...
... pardoned Peiper on January 31, 1951 to life imprisonment.
In 1956, Peiper was released early.
In the 1960s, Peiper moved to Traves (France) ...
... which led to heated debates in the French press and public, which culminated in the demand for his expulsion. The newspaper "L'Humanité", the central organ of the French Communist Party, campaigned for Peiper's expulsion.
On the night of July 14-15, 1976, an exchange of fire broke out in Peiper's house in Traves, in which Peiper apparently fired several shots himself. His house was set on fire and in the ruin the police later found Peiper's charred body with a fatal gunshot wound in the chest ...:
The fact was never solved.
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There is now a break in this section because I will be traveling to Odessa in a moment.
It continues here on January 6th.
Happy Holidays to all of you!
