A colorized photo of the war criminal Nazi Waffen-SS officer responsible for the deaths of American prisoners of war during World War II was posted to U.S. Army and Defense Department Facebook accounts commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
The image of Joachim Peiper — a Panzer tank commander involved in the deaths of 84 Americans in what is known as the Malmedy massacre — was originally posted to Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps and subsequently shared by the Department of Defense and the Army’s 10th Mountain Division.
The image featuring the Nazi commander generated massive push back on social media with some describing the post as “vile” and “disturbing.” The post included a narrative featuring excerpts from Peiper’s journal entry that some commentators on social media described as a “fanboy” account of the Nazi commander’s exploits during the Battle of the Bulge.
ht/ petrus
Pentagon Muslim Outreach. Many of our muslim soldiers like to see their WWII heroes, too.
Remember the asshole kicked out of West Point for flashing his “Communism will win” shirt under his uniform? Spenser Rapone.
Well, plenty of the enemy within didn’t flash their true colors so obviously.
Now way the united states could be victorious over a third Reich today; too soft and lacks the moral fiber. Add in the gender integrated army and you’ve got a weak armed forces. But I digress.
George: are you saying that the Muzzloid, ChiCom, Russian hordes wouldn’t quake in their boots at a battalion of drag queens coming over a sand dune with M4s and grenade launchers?
First they’ll take your local library then Beijing.
Am I the only one that thought this was a photo shop of DAVID HOGG?
Scary resemblance.
Dead ringer for my eyes, but then I’ve had a number of procedures so my vision ain’t the best.
peiper killed American soldiers. and POWz. He was a member of the communist resistance after he got out of prison.
If alive today he would be a member in good standing of anti-fa
Oh yeah. It’s worth saving. For the republic. For general suffrage. For these are
ourtheir warrior philospher an heroes.Joachim Peiper was not present when his soldiers committed the numerous massacres of American soldiers and Belgian civilians during the Battle of the Bulge, but he was held to be responsible for his soldiers’ crimes. Although he was found guilty and sentenced to death, his American military lawyers delayed the imposition of his sentence for enough years that he was finally released when the Germans were on our side during the Cold War. He was guilty of many war crimes on the Eastern Front, where he won his Iron Cross and gained a reputation as a fierce proponent of the superiority of the Master Race. He should have been held to account for his murderous misdeeds.
Looks like a typical Democrat to me, you can be sure the likes of Nadler and Shiff would love to be able to do the same.
@Marco December 18, 2019 at 10:49 am
> He should have been held to account for his murderous misdeeds.
You do realize, the orders he was “just following”, were the same orders given to, and proudly, “justly”, followed, by The United States forces, his forces “crimed” against? Right?
Or do you already have a sinecure on the FISA court (yeah, it means both)?
Marco, “He should have been held to account for his murderous misdeeds.” It is appalling how little justice was meted out at Nuremberg. German commanders who were responsible for thousands of dead civilians got as little as 7 years! It makes you want to puke. No wonder we continue to have people like that in our midst.
My guess is this photo was posted by “deep staters” embeded in the DoD, in an attempt to embarrass President Trump.
Anonymous 1: I don’t know of any occasion that Allied soldiers on the Western Front massacred civilians or murdered masses of unarmed Wehrmacht solders. It was quite a different situation on the Eastern Front, but those soldiers were mainly Russians and they suffered more than 28 million deaths defending their country from men like Joachim Peiper. As for the rest of your comments, I don’t comprehend gibberish well enough to conjure up a response.
Anonymous 2: It’s very interesting to compare the trials and sentences meted out to the war criminals in Eastern Europe with the ones presided over by the United States. They would have made short work of Joachim Peiper. The other Allies were not nearly as concerned with the niceties of legalities when they were prosecuting war criminals in France, Holland and Great Britain. The United States acted much the same way dealing with Japanese war criminals in Asia, and most of their life sentences were commuted by General Douglas MacArthur after less than a decade.
After reading some of the MilitaryTimes other articles I am now convinced that they are leftwing DeepStaters. I have deleted their bookmark and will no longer click on their crap.
I knew a guy who fought in the Third Army and he said (he’d dead now and can’t corroborate) that the guys in Third Army made a habit of murdering any SS they came across. Shot them in the back after disarming them (so it’d look like they were cowards under fire). Maybe he was talkin shit, maybe not – I wasn’t there.
One thing I’m pretty convinced of, is that war is Hell (at least a close approximation) and that once men are conditioned to kill, that’s what they do.
Did the SS murders of prisoners at Malmedy justify later murders by Americans?
Yeah, far as I’m concerned.
One thing is absolutely certain – the dead are STILL dead (even though many of them continue to vote Demonrat).
izlamo delenda est …
Tim: According to everything I’ve ever read, all of the Allied solders made sure that most of the SS soldiers that they fought didn’t make in into prisoner of war camps. Sometimes this was because they fanatically fought to their deaths, and other times it was because they were widely recognized as being responsible for many horrific acts against civilians and unarmed soldiers.
Oddly enough, I was a good friend with someone who knew Joachim Peiper when he was going to Freiburg University in Germany during the 1930s. He corresponded with Peiper for many years after he was released from prison. My friend was a first generation American and the son of German immigrants, who sent him back to Germany to get away from the Great Depression. He left Germany just before Poland was invaded. He saw everything we read about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis.
Lately I’ve been reading several books about about WW2, particularly the fighting between the Red Army and the Nazis.
Among the books in hand, but not yet all read: “Lady Death – the memoirs of Stalin’s sniper” by Lyudmila Pavlichenko; “Girl With a Sniper Rifle – an eastern front memoir”, by Yulia Zhukova; “Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer; “Sniper on the Eastern Front – the memoirs of Sepp Allerberger knights cross”, by Albrecht Wacker; and “When Titans Clashed – how the Red army stopped Hitler ” – by David Glantz and Jonathan House.
“The Eastern Front – memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941 – 1945. by Leon Degrelle. Is one book I was inclined not to order to read because I have often read that the Waffen SS were regarded as being the biggest a-holes on the battle field. If the scene in the movie, Fury, is to be believed SS were often shot as soon as they were captured.
More research revealed that not buying this book was the correct choice. This following recommendation I judges as being BS. “In a laudatory review appearing in an official US Army Department magazine, US Army Brigadier General John C. Bahnsen wrote: “The pace of the writing is fast; the action is graphic, and a warrior can learn things from reading this book. I recommend its reading by students of the art of war. It is well worth the price.”
A reviewer of the book wrote this, “The preface to the book describes DeGrelle as a hero. In reality he was a war criminal who was convicted to death in-absentia by the Belgian government for his crimes against humanity. ”
Reading the Look Inside feature on Amazon, written on one of the first pages of the book there is indeed a note saying part of the profits from the sale of the book goes to The Institute of Historical Review.
“The Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded in 1978, is an organization based in California, United States, best known for publishing articles and books promoting Holocaust Denial.”….”In an article published in Hitlist Magazine in 2002, author Kevin Coogan claimed there had been attempts to forge ties between American and European Holocaust-denial groups such as the IHR and “radical Middle Eastern extremists.” According to Coogan, Ahmed Rami, a former Moroccan military officer “founded Radio Islam to disseminate antisemitic, Holocaust denying, and often pro-Nazi propaganda,” and tried to organize, with the IHR, a conference in a Hezbollah-controlled section of Beirut, Lebanon…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Historical_Review .
@ Marco – He saw everything we read about the rise of Hitler and the Nazis.
Seven years ago I read Erik Larson’s book – “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin”.
Which recounts the rise of Nazism during the early 1930s as witnessed by Amb. William E. Dodd. Who tried to warn Washington about the rising darkness. His daughter, Martha, according to the author, was a sleep around party girl sleeping with among others – head Gestapo Rudolph Diels and soviet spy Boris Vinogradov. She also defended the regime to her friends.
https://eriklarsonbooks.com/book/in-the-garden-of-beasts/ .
Blink: My friend was the nephew of Heinrich Mueller, the head of the Gestapo. He was present in the stands at several of those Nazi rallies in the stadium at Nuremberg. One of his other friends was Hannah Reitsch. He was also well acquainted with one of Hitler’s SS chauffeurs. He had hundreds of photographs that proved he wasn’t telling tall tales. My friend could have written a book about it, but he knew that everyone would call him a Nazi for just being there.
@blink
I’ve read that sepp allerberger memoir of his time on the eastern front. I’ll never forget what he witnessed regarding that gang rape and murder. Truly heinous and barbaric and I thank God that this country has never seen anything like that. I pray it stays that way.
Even within the SS, some units, unbelievably, were worse than others. The most likely worst was led by this guy Dirlewanger:
Dr. Oskar Paul Dirlewanger (26 September 1895 – 7 June 1945 (certificate of death)) was a German military officer and the founder and commander of the infamous Nazi SS penal unit “Dirlewanger” during World War II. Dirlewanger’s name is closely linked to some of the worst crimes of the war. He also fought in World War I as well as in the post-World War I conflicts, and in the Spanish Civil War. He died after World War II while in Allied custody, apparently beaten to death by his guards.