BRUTAL Murder of Joachim Peiper - Extremely Sadistic NAZI Officer BURNED ALIVE for his WW2 Crimes

Joachim Peiper, the third son of an officer in the Imperial German Army, was born on the 30th of January 1915, in Wilmersdorf, then part of the German Empire.
On 30 January 1933, the same day Peiper turned 18, Adolf Hitler become chancellor of Germany. He then joined the Hitler Youth, the Nazi-organized youth movement. The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization designed to train boys as future fighters and soldiers for war. As an official organization of the Nazi state, the Hitler Youth had a military structure at the local, regional, and national levels. The boys practiced military drills and learned to handle weapons. They also worked on farms in the summer and participated in competitive sports, especially boxing. Some boys enjoyed the physical challenge, competition, and camaraderie. Others, however, found the constant focus on preparing for war and sacrificing themselves for the fatherland very difficult.
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[@rondobson1828]

How in the world was this guy released from prison after only 12 years? Wow.

[@asmirann3636]

Strange, isn't it !!! Most Nazis made it back to normal life after few years. This is the reality. Only the famous and known Nazis were punished. But many other millions weren't.

[@largol33t1]

Allied courts and judges were actually biased. Almost all of the Japanese who committed crimes against humanity never went to prison. The Nazis were barely punished any harder. I have NO respect for those who worked in the courts after the war. They HELPED the Axis monsters get away with their crimes and some even lived better after the war because the Allies helped them financially after getting information about how to torture people even more. The medical research was the ONLY thing that mattered to the Allies, not the millions and millions of innocent people they slaughtered. So a few Allied leaders were just as bad as the ones who ran the concentration camps. I don't care about advancements in medicine. If people were slaughtered and tortured for the "research", it's not worth pursuing.

[@janpierzchala2004]

quite simply, this "extremely sadistic" feature here has little in common with the assessments of those deciding xx years ago and more knowledgable?

[@janpierzchala2004]

Never assume that the 10 minutes currently watched on ytb is the best wisdom out there in history of mankind, think

[@royroach5328]

Uh he wasn’t guilty duh.

[@tonygagey]

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Current politicians please note.

[@MrNecryptic]

History itself proves no one learns from history. There is no political solution.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Why’s that?

[@street-level]

"The sentiment that history repeats aspires to common sense and is hard to disagree with. In the history of the United States and Europe, wars have ended with confiscatory terms of government surrender inevitably breeding more wars. Revolutions, like those in France and Russia, that gave an individual absolute power-Napoleon and Stalin, respectively-inevitably end up as failed empires brutal dictatorships. Even individuals are subject to this advice. Couples who do not learn from their fights break up. People who don’t learn from their mistakes don’t mature." BigThink.

[@pneulancer]

That's sounds profound.....but it is logically and empirically unsound. A fallacy and sophistry. Plato, Socrates and Aristotle would disagree with your statement and would no doubt explain the error of your "logic". But I'm guessing you would say they're morons and that I'm just a degenerate troll.

[@castorkat4868]

current politicians cant read for the most part

[@phillm156]

For all those micro-brains who thinks WW2 atrocities were all fake. There was a documentary series made in the 1970s called “The World at War". A brutal series with images to match.

[@mercomania]

Made by the BBC, and cannot be called impartial.

[@stevenclarke5606]

I Totally Agree, The World At War Is The Definitive WW 2 Documentary

[@barrymitchell6444]

I remember it well, with the haunting music and images at the end. Easily the best documentation of WWII, despite what the Nazi-loving moron here says.

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@mercomania It was produced by Thames Television, shown in the USA first, then shown on ITV in the UK and on BBC TV later. So get your facts right, dopey 🤡

[@edselrodriguezagosto]

Whatever TOGGAF

[@pringlel]

These computer generated narrations drive me nuts. I can stand it for about five minutes then have to reluctantly switch off.

[@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw]

The "voice" is extremely irritating.

[@SA-qm3bp]

This one is about the worst I have ever heard

[@zxxzmjjjiik6986]

Yep, I couldn't take it for long. I watched about 5min then skipped to the end. In summary: this guy was born into a wierd nationist German family. Was an absolute arsehole for many years, got off light with his sentence. Then some punks in France set fire to his house and he got his Karma

[@kevredman5808]

Agreed. I'm 3 minutes in and gone!

[@Netlife-001]

It's a crap clcik click bait vid anyway. u miss anything. copy n paste job

[@thunderK5]

Small note: Peiper commanded the Panzer battalion of the 1sr SS Panzer Division. He was not the overall division commander.

[@CSAFD]

Robert Shaw’s character of “Col. Hesler” in battle of the bulge is based on Peiper

[@zerokrm8980]

It was Under Sepp Deitrich.

[@selfdo]

Actually under "Panzer"Meyer, Peiper's command was simply known as "Kampfgruppe Peiper".

[@lilyjoji]

IT DOES’NT MATTER HE IS STILL A COLD BLOODED SADISTIC NAZZI CRIMINAL…SHAME ON YOU…YUO NAZZIS HYPOCRITES AND BLOOD SUCKERS

[@xScooterAZx]

@@selfdo No.Kurt"Panzer"Meyer wasnt even there.

[@derekstocker6661]

Amazing how even all those years ago and after all those lives taken so brutally, the authorities still went soft on these killers.

[@Blayda1]

Not just that ,, the US took alot of Germanys best Nazi minds to the US in Operation Paperclip to help advance their rocket programmes. These peoples input allowed the Apollo rockets to be produced. Ignoring that these people had experimented on people , developed gases to mass kill , but were also on the brink of developing a Nuclear weapon which the US didn't want the technology falling into the hands of the USSR.

[@davebrookbank4831]

Same thing the us is doing to hamas

[@user-rt6ip4kb1i]

because US military did something similar.

[@bigdongbob838]

Prolly knew deep down they were falsely accusing someone, as in the vast majority of these cases. E.g., Mengele, entire "case" against him is complete garbage. Just an MD.

[@captainwin6333]

@@davebrookbank4831 The US are war criminals. The world has gone soft on the US as a series of Presidents should be in jail right now.

[@sallys9294]

Amazing how evil the human person can get. It really makes one think.

[@Dingoroaming]

And yet how many Stupid people are supporting Hamas?

[@ReichRoller]

Human person

[@smoke1271]

The part about the priest Mario Ghibaudo really got to me, He was just ordained 3 months before being killed while helping orphans escape and offering absolution to the people commiting these atrocities. So very sad. Good people like that should not die the way he did.

[@r0ky_M]

Absolution?..LoL..are you an idiot Catholic?

[@MrLgmurphysr]

There is no absolution. If there were, it wouldn't come from a man.

[@jontanneguy4960]

You don't know a person's true character until they are put to the test.

[@bigdongbob838]

SS officer was probably innocent and falsely accused. I mean, if the very strong trend holds here...

[@captainwin6333]

@@bigdongbob838 Nah, he was scum and guilty. Got off lightly if you ask me.

[@Craig52-zq1bt]

Bones do not shrink. As a fire fighter I disagree with the 60 cm claim

[@JT-rc7vx]

Guessing it was a child and this scumbag lived out his wothless, sadistic existence in Bolivia. Probably, all courtesy of the Volkswagen corporation.😂

[@JuanCarlosOmar1]

I hope he didn’t evade justice but yes a shrinking to 60cm sounds strange

[@70sVRsignalman]

In my view, Peiper received what he dished out to others, so zero sympathy for that psychopath . Reminds me of Major Grau (Abwehr) comment to Wehrmacht General Kahlenberg"...whilst we may give medals to mass murderers, we still hang the entrepreneur..." , in the film, not the book.

[@guilhermedepaula8284]

Believe me. There are millions like him today, and they're ready to act in prol of those sick ideals..😢😢😢

[@peggyclause8847]

Trump, pathicly, has brought them out of the wood work.

[@uraniumu242]

And your evidence please?

[@Ronnie-sy9vx]

Democrats. All the proof you need. Just open your eyes..

[@Chichi-bh9wo]

​@@uraniumu242Genocide taking place in a covert fashion in the UK Now.

[@michaelbee2165]

​@@uraniumu242Ukraine

[@zubaralhadeed]

how ready we are to condemn history while we stay blind to the present

[@BB-gs5rs]

The current racist fascist left you are referring to

[@tonywoodham3760]

Care to elaborate????

[@osric1730]

@@BB-gs5rs What left would that be, and how are they fascist?

[@shannonsullivan1968]

The atrocities committed at the behest of this man are beyond the pale. His punishment shall be never ceasing throughout the eternities. He was unrepentant to the end. Just boggles the mind.

[@askcitizenfitz]

How's playing God working out for you?

[@martinidry6300]

You have an incredible lack of perspective. Tamurlane's mob? Genghis Khan? Shaka Zulu? Sharpur II? Suluyman the Magnificent? There are legions more. You boggle the mind. Break out the books oh Great Wise One.

[@RifleEyez]

Would you call it an atrocity when a Lion cripples a Gazelle and waits for it to die before eating it? Should the Lion be repentant for its actions? How about when a Lion kills all the young to secure the place of the pride?

[@elessartelcontar9415]

On Bastille Day, 14 July 1976, French anti-Nazis attacked and torched Peiper's house in Traves. When the fire was extinguished, firefighters found the charred remains of a man holding a pistol and a .22 calibre rifle, as if defending himself.[124] The arson investigators determined that person had died from smoke inhalation.[136] The anti-Nazi political group The Avengers claimed responsibility for the arson that killed Peiper; nonetheless, because of the destruction caused by the arson some French police authorities remained unconvinced that Joachim Peiper was the person found. If it was him, he died at 61 years old, so no swift justice.

[@GeloDianela]

His battalion was nicknamed the 'Blowtorch Battalion' for a reason. What he did on the Western Front wasn't even an inkling of his crimes in the Soviet Union.

[@crankychris2]

Agreed. Operation Barberosa alone killed many millions of Russians in many sadistic ways. The Russians returned the favor when they attacked Germany in 1945. Many historians believe that Barberosa was Hitler's wprst decision of WW2, along with declaring war on the USA.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

The ole innocent Soviet Union.

[@GeloDianela]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 nope

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

They had no patience for partisans.

[@yzfool6639]

@@karlheinzvonkroemann2217 Or Jews. Or Gypsies. Or Slavs.

[@TheShaunedney]

Listening to the narrator and there being different writing at the bottom of the screen seemed strange it was like watching two docs at once

[@JoshuaKing-si3qw]

Why wouldn't u ignore the writing rewatch the video on mute a second d time if u couldnt do both

[@jeffn1384]

Miniaturized by fire? Never heard of that one before.

[@terryyakamoto3488]

Me neither, it must just be a Nazi thing. I hope my Christmas Turkey isn't a Nazi so it miniaturizes to the size of a sparrow in the oven

[@davidtwliew616]

​@@terryyakamoto3488Ha ha ha, nothing much to eat after that!😅😅😅

[@muskokamike127]

12 yrs in prison for what he did? that's brutal......

[@gamereactz]

I know what bs

[@timhoward5863]

He was not exactly his own best friend, was he.

[@user-wo7fj8cz6q]

I simply cannot understand how ridiculous this judicial system is: The initial death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, Then commuted to 35 years in prison, Eventually released on parole.

[@shaunnichols1743]

Cold War, mostly. The west had a major incentive to get their portion of Germany rebuilt and back on its feet as soon as possible. Part of that meant getting the war criminals out of mind for the public.

[@user-wo7fj8cz6q]

thank you, this is a very clear answer. Same thing happened in the China Theater, Chiang Kai shek also released many Japanese war criminals to help him against Chinese Communist.

[@mercomania]

Have you ever wondered why? the initial evidence was at best hearsay and at worse lies.

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@mercomania 🤡

[@chestnut1279]

@@mercomania have you ever woken up, looked in the mirror and seen a nazi LOL

[@neilgodwin6531]

It's extremely irritating when a long, often complex graphic is put on screen while the narrator is mid-flow. I can't read and listen simultaneously and find I fail to absorb either

[@LethalSaliva]

Me too

[@lucaswickiser6874]

Pause it and read it, then continue watching the video. Problem solved.

[@LethalSaliva]

@@lucaswickiser6874 That's what I do😊

[@splashfreelance2376]

@@LethalSaliva Indeed. But, particularly on a phone, it's not particularly trivial to pause or worse, rewind to the spot where the text was on screen. Just because it's possible to work out a way to absorb the information, doesn't mean it's the best, most appropriate or most efficient way. I'm not sure what the solution is, but many videos only put text up for a ridiculously short time so finding the spot via rewind etc can be a pain on a phone, and if the trends I was paying attention to a few years ago are anything to go by, the vast majority of video is viewed on a phone. The best solution I've seen so far is where the narration warns you beforehand that you might like to pause and then the text is up for a few seconds at least, giving the viewer some time to decide to pause and then pause. Without having to seek at all.

[@Demy1970]

The entire episode of Malmedy is very complicated. A few recent books have shed light on the situation. I have no verdict on the episode but Peiper living in France was just asking for trouble

[@davidhoward4715]

The entire episode of Malmedy is *_not_* very complicated.

[@johnroddy8756]

Above all places to live,You think even the South pole would be unsafe for him.

[@tancreddehauteville764]

Peiper was probably looking for trouble, almost a death wish. He didn't have much fun after getting out of jail and couldn't get a decent job.

[@jasonbender2459]

@@johnroddy8756 nobody is safe in the antarctic circle

[@johnroddy8756]

Its a Figure of speech man,we all know that .

[@davewilson9738]

How they were able to plead that they had been abused to void the trial is beyond me. Ridiculous.

[@Brentboy111]

We always have to follow the rule of law or,well,we become them. It’s unfortunate I agree. The soviets beat confessions out of all their prisoners. That makes them just as bad. When one person loses their human rights,we all lose our human rights. Stalin had to be discouraged to just shoot every SS soldier and nazi official Germany would have had no leadership to steer them into the country that it is today. The Germans have learnt from their mistakes. Unfortunately there is a new generation that is embracing the past. No one seems to learn from history. 🙄

[@rowdyways4228]

They did go to trial

[@donclowers7666]

Torture of Germans to get confessions is now pretty well known.

[@AdrianMcConnell-su9re]

The Americans were anxious to get convictions by any means possible. All members of Armed S. S. were assumed to be guilty of war crimes, which in reality, was not always the case ?

[@anandparmeswaran6681]

All GERMANS were responsible for the DEVIL 👿 Adolf Hitler growth

[@benelias3556]

What a travesty of justice that this monster got to live 30 more years after all of the murders and torture and just unspeakable acts of inhuman Behavior

[@NoahBenzing-ru5st]

No joke and you are still alive?! TRAVIS!!!!

[@code-dredd]

I always find it amusing when someone refers to socialists and communists as being part of the political "right".

[@richardfiliczkowski117]

I was about to say that also. It is the left trying to hid their totalitarian dictatorship tendencies.

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

Yes those were the facists

[@code-dredd]

@@7thsonofa7thson80 Yes, on the _Left_ every single time.

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

@@code-dredd no the right calls democrats communists and socialists because thay don't agree with them.

[@deadandburied7626]

National Socialists were right wing.

[@danielwebster5748]

Rest in peace to the American victims from a fellow American and as well as the millions of innocent victims that were also murdered

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

Stop sucking up to Isr🔯el.

[@janschkeuditz6065]

There are remembered throughout each and every year in England France Belgium and Holland.

[@user-ox7xr8nu4t]

@@janschkeuditz6065 Sure. But keep your borders open. Insanity.

[@janschkeuditz6065]

@@user-ox7xr8nu4t I travel all over europe by car train and on my motorbike. In the big cities you see homeless people mainly local.people. Life seems normal other than that sad fact. Not dure what that has to do with remembering the sacrifices of young American service men . I live 3 minutes from a giant cemetery and a few Tank and aircraft memorials nearby .

[@ollieox9181]

Don't forget that next year - at the next election - when you can choose between a sensible man who believes in democracy or a jumped-up used car salesman who would like to return to a Nazi-like regime such as what they had in Germany in the 30s.

[@janpierzchala2004]

After the Bulge operation Peiper retreated to a sanatorium with severe exhaustion - PTSD (as we call it today)

[@janpierzchala2004]

Even in the last months of its existence the Reich operated under assumption it will last for 1000 years, hence sanatoria for soldiers and not simple "fight on!"

[@user-oz5gr4cw2k]

Also after Normandy: the cruelty destroy the soul

[@Vevay1961]

The nutcase had a family history of rampant mental illness. Oldest brother lived in a mental asylum his entire adult life. 2nd brother was gay and got beat to death after getting caught trying to molest members of his military unit. So Joachim was just as warped.

[@1DaRavishing]

You killed a man of "The Cloth" while he was admistering last rites?! 🤬

[@MrNitestorm1]

Amazing how porsche is still doing so well, with what we most of us knew about the company's past

[@supathos3446]

Also BMW, Mercedes and Hugo BOSS all are popular and doing well though they were active during the holocaust. They used Jewish prisoners for this labor

[@steveelliott5643]

Interesting comment,they were involved in the Tiger tank construction.And are still charging absurd prices for car parts and special tools to work on their engines

[@Desertfox14]

There are many companies who were sympathizers. Boss, VW, adidas, Puma sneakers, Bayer drug company. There are many more.

[@steveelliott5643]

@@Desertfox14 true,thanks didn't realize that?!

[@JonDingle]

Porsche, Mercedes Benz and VW alike.

[@Hogan231]

This SS Officer.

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

Was not very clever... going to spend his life into the hole of a wolf!

[@archlich4489]

...got miniaturized

[@SJ-li6ho]

How can a nation be so evil.

[@djharto4917]

Coming from an American? Lol

[@JustMe-md2gp]

Is that you, Mr Putin. Didn't realize you commented here. @@djharto4917

[@JamesMobilio]

You mean like the US allowing 70 MILLION unborn to be murdered?

[@darwinism14]

Asking the question while having the SOVIETS as allies on "the good side" is really mind boggling.

[@sushinuggets8475]

Not surprising how easily people were swayed considering the atrocities that happened from 2021-2023

[@stuzo666]

War takes no prisoners, why , because war is hell

[@ManuelGarcia-cd1hk]

Whoever wrote this must be a cousin of Stalin or a total history ignoramus. Peiper trial on the Malmedy incident was controversial and full of hearsay. He served about 10 years in jail and was released. Someone fire bombed his home after Peiper made the stupid mistake of moving to France.

[@user-yn8qi4fn4y]

My ? Is why was he allowed to live

[@bernardedwards8461]

here is an element of truth in the Nazi claims, even the Allied generals thought Germany could hold out for perhaps another year and were surprised when it surrendered. It could not have won the war, but by inflicting severe casualties on the allies as they dashed themselves to pieces on the German defences, the hope was that they would consider more congenial armistice terms, but it was not to be. In those days the Social Democrats were a crypto-communist party, and because there was communist inspired civilian unrest in northern Germany and a naval mutiny, they and the communists in the interim government agreed to a premature surrender which scuttled the plan. The Social Democrats did not formally abandon their Communist ideology until the 1950s.

[@xycap8351]

Germany had basically won in the sumker of 16 and offered the entente very generous terms of status quo ante bellum. But some people saw an opportunity to exchange the country who took them in and allowed them security and prosperity; [Germanys] future for Israel ..so they went to Balfour....the rest we know

[@jerseyforhawks]

The movie 'Come and See' seems to have captured the likes of this man.

[@Sion_Revan]

That movie is brutal

[@castleofsong9620]

There’s an important point to note here that in the post war period the US took a far more sympathetic view on Nazis than many would think. The rampant anti-communist hysteria in the US led them to condone the release and reintegration of former Nazis into prominent positions European industry and society including unreformed Nazis. There were large elements of the Nazi philosophy that fitted with the US capitalism.

[@Elementalism]

They had to build West Germany armed forces to assist in case of a Soviet Invasion. So the natural thing was to task former Wehrmacht and I guess in some cases SS officers. With that said please tell us what large Nazi philosophical views fit with liberal US capitalism.

[@jacktattis]

@@Elementalism Fascism ???????

[@1crazypj]

@@Elementalism Maybe you should look at history a bit closer, America stole technology from everyone after WWII, including allies. Even Eisenhower wanted to shut down American military complex masquerading as capitalism

[@Elementalism]

@@jacktattis You are going to have to be more specific than the broad brush of Fascism.

[@jacktattis]

@@Elementalism And that is not enough? 10 million deaths in camps in the name of Fascism is not enough?

[@ChairmanPaulieD]

@0:20 - @0:25 that is SS- Der SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich who was in charge of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler personal daily bodyguard

[@joevidrine]

A demonic spirit of revenge dominates this program.

[@Vikingdescendent]

When will we ever learn from the past???

[@seanlav8040]

Humanity won't

[@Driven2Beers]

The character of Col. Hessler (played by Robert Shaw) in the movie _The Battle of the Bulge_ is loosely based on Pieper.

[@CaptainAmericaSquad]

Great movie

[@Driven2Beers]

@@CaptainAmericaSquad Lots of historical inaccuracies though, such as the types of tanks as well as the terrain being treeless rolling hills instead of dense Ardennes forest. This was more than made up for by the excellent acting performances. I loved the scene where the German officers were pondering over McAuliffe's "Nuts" reply!

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Ridiculous film

[@CaptainAmericaSquad]

@@Driven2Beers true but still great

[@johnnyola8391]

Robert Shaw was such a great actor who else could play Quint and the demented evil killer in From Russia With Love

[@mikrich76]

Great information, but you need to leave text up long enough to read it

[@rikallan5094]

You reap what you sow....

[@scubaman6]

Just for the record and I don't approve of the German Army or its leaders in any form whatsoever as my Uncle was at Bastogne serving in the 101st Airborne. The United States Supreme Court ruled that Peiper was not guilty of the crimes he was accused of at Malmedy.

[@bob281261]

when the massacre happened peiper was miles away it was never proved that he ordered it or even knew about it this was one of the main problems with his conviction, this being said his record in the then USSR, had he faced trial there would have resulted in his execution . therefor the misconduct by the investigators probably extended his life span by 12 -15 years.

[@selfdo]

Those facts were acknowledged by the Tribunal. He was found guilty due to failure in command to properly supervise his men and officers.

[@bob281261]

If they acknowledged these facts it just makes the conviction more Shakey not less.

[@selfdo]

@bob281261 Look up Yamashita principle. I'm not saying that I agree with its applications, but, in general, a CO is held personally responsible for the conduct of those under his command, even if they did so without authorization or his foreknowledge.

[@bob281261]

a good point but not applied evenly Calley at my lia although know to be unstable by his superiors they were not deemed to be responsible for his actions or Paddy Mayne and the Luftwaffe massacre again not only were his superiors not deemed to be responsible neither was he or even more infamously the massacre at ordour in France the commanding officer and the operations officer Lammerding and Stuckler respectively were not deemed to be responsible for the actions of the men who committed this crime.

[@bob281261]

excuse the bad German spellings

[@regwatson2017]

Crazy how he didn't ensure he "disappeared" out of sight but instead went out of his way to court danger. And living in France of all places.

[@charliesmith4072]

Peiper's most zealous advocate in the U.S. was Senator Joseph McCarthy.

[@hiloviking]

Far right for sure.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

A great American who knew a Communist when he saw one! BTW, McCarthy was a war hero, didn't know that did ya Komrad?

[@gerrybailey447]

​ Are you kidding me, one of the most shameful periods in US history.

[@gerrybailey447]

@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 You do know that Japan and Germany were allies?

[@gerrybailey447]

@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 The wanted oil, they got nuclear.

[@jaredquinney204]

I really can't believe that these people were this sad

[@Vagorim]

How is it so hard to believe? People were having to wheel buckets of cash just to purchase a loaf of bread.

[@tomfilipiak3511]

I think it is very likely,that the treaties forced on Germany,had a big part in the cause of WW 11!!!

[@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195]

And that the still exist even though of a different race .....

[@asmirann3636]

​@@VagorimDoes that mean that you become an animal after such hardships !!! Nonsense. Germans were heavily indoctrinated before. They were one of the most radical, narrow-minded and violent societies. The war crimes they committed were a result of such inferior kultur and mentality.

[@ashrakus]

Great video, amazing footage and colorized photos. You are the best! I love your channel ❤

[@davidcook7887]

I watched a podcast where he was found with his neck broken at the bottom of the stairs of his French cottage.

[@michaelsteiner6500]

Take your own war crimes and shame yourself. And don't lei about good German soldiers. Cheers

[@nfwqhrfh]

What do you want to say with this? The Germans were the good guys? Or that they never did any war crimes?

[@brianblackwelder9533]

Death has no remorse for man who takes the name of its own place and says I am a god.

[@TheDarkDutchman]

14:26 "Hitler....." What a passion to pronounce that name. 🤣

[@stevenmanglis7368]

Soldiery atrocities were committed by everyone. A war as brutal as WW2 takes soldiers to another place.

[@ImperiumGallery]

Gotta love the biased language and how routine anti-guerrilla warfare is even labeled a “war crime.” Bravo for succumbing to the narrative. Also, maybe do a video for the 60,000 French civilians killed by Allied bombings.

[@xycap8351]

Or the millions german civilians burned alive i terrorbombings. Or the many American warcrimes ...There isnt a thing Wehrmaccht did that US troops also did ..why else was the 'tu quoque defence" banned in Nuremberg by the prosecution and why else did they hide evidence from defence and cheat ? Why were German POWs reclassified as DEF to avoid Geneva convention and millions more than there was food and water for forced into the camp and hundreds of thousands up to millions starved to death and died from exposure in the Rheinwiesenlager allied mass concentration camp ?

[@nathandodge665]

That's not guerilla warfare Karen

[@steviemick8074]

I don't mean to trivialise the events detailed in the video, but is it just me who couldn't stop picturing the actor Christopher plummer? Even in later life the resemblance is uncanny

[@robertanderson809]

True Believers of any stripe sure seem capable of unforgivable madness...

[@youssefalkandari6803]

When I read the title I thought it said buried him alive instead of burned alive

[@The.Pickle]

Same

[@timothydudley3106]

He was murdered by unknown people!

[@AmerigoGadsden]

So weird seeing only 48 stars on our flag. We didn't get Alaska and Hawaii until '59.

[@MrQor2]

WOW... AMAZING VIDEO ! THANK YOU KINDLY FOR SHARING !😗

[@trixysvinylmusicfordjs8799]

where does all this footage come from and how do we know what years / battles its associated with? Im baffled!

[@Revelation1316]

I guess this proves You Tube is no better than he was.

[@mancavemusician]

How the hell could this guy only serve 12 years for his crimes. I cant belive nobody got to him earlier after he was released.

[@andrew_koala2974]

Learn the difference in meaning between no'body' and no'one' To test your intelligence; I ask you the following question: How many of YOU are there in existence on this earth ? Are you getting the point yet ? Undertake an extensive reading program to educate yourself and learn correct grammatical legal English, And learn to format text into paragraphs. It's not difficult for one that is sufficient;y educated educated and possess literacy skills. THAT IS WHY IT IS CRITICAL TO READ BOOKS Good luck and Good bye

[@marpintado]

@@andrew_koala2974 Your reaction to a simple colloquialism give's me de certitude that you, if ever given the slightest whiff of power, would became one off those monsters described in this video.

[@garettanderson6772]

I ask you the following question: If you were born a genetic male you will always be male true or false?

[@lorddrakolai5545]

ah yes. so we want be like the french during the reign of terror got it

[@marpintado]

@@lorddrakolai5545 Are you a descendent of a nazi?

[@markholt2160]

The title is nonsense, and an American officer who captured him briefly, testified in his favour at his trial. He was a tank commander and never committed any atrocities although he was implicated, by virtue of command, in the Malmady shooting"

[@davidmathewson1088]

He was into minimalization. Well, he was trying to lose weight anyway.

[@caldarion2506]

"mentally ill" somebody was.. Didn't know this is a thing. Isnt it "having special needs" or something? Probably, back then, things were different...

[@MarciaBaker1205]

It's still coded "mentally ill" in medical terms but has many other related diagnosis' as "mentally ill" related to "bipolar" or "mentally ill related to "schizophrenia" & many other subgroups. Medical diagnosis coders & physicians get lots of training on this because doctors & medical facilities get paid by the diagnosis code.

[@allangibson8494]

Just like the mass murders the Republicans insist have a right to weapons to this day.

[@danielwebster5748]

Spoken by a true very young and naive person. Back then things were much different I mean just a few years before it was called mentally retarded or even maniacal. Of course things were much different 80 years ago.

[@allangibson8494]

@@danielwebster5748 Yeah until Ronald Reagan closed down all the asylums, the nutters wouldn’t have been around to vote Republican.

[@jamestaylor2906]

Important to detail the horrific crimes and dedication to evil of this man. Unbelievable that he was relatively lightly punished in this lifetime, until the end.

[@barrywilliams360]

I really can’t understand how brutally horrendously cruel and sick people can be !😢

[@tenthousanddays2103]

It's fiction.

[@alextepe4309]

There were German units who did treat POWs respectfully. However, commanders like Pieper thought this way: prisoners will only slow us down, so we just won’t take them.

[@sozialistischespatientenko3797]

You should also mention that there were also Allied units who shot POWs, the Biscari massacre commited by US troops, to name only one. Not to speak of the Eastern Front, where getting shot after surrendering wasn´t the worst thing which could have happened to you, again on both sides.

[@jacktattis]

@@sozialistischespatientenko3797 German apologist are we?????

[@sozialistischespatientenko3797]

@@jacktattis Did I try to excuse any German war crimes? I don't think so. But one should be aware that crimes in war are "normal" even without Germans being involved. My Lai comes to mind. War in itself could be considered a crime!

[@donwoodward4771]

@@jacktattisNah ,just a balanced view of what was happening on both sides, does that offend you?

[@jacktattis]

@@sozialistischespatientenko3797 It was and the Unit disbanded

[@paulcarvalho7976]

You know the smoke got to him before the fire

[@captainwin6333]

Nope, the fear got to him. He caked his underwear. Died screaming and crying for his mum.

[@RifleEyez]

@@captainwin6333 Nope went out like a boss with a rifle. Sad that even in their attack he still lived to be an old man with a distinguished career achieving infinitely more than his attackers did lmao. Who attacked him? Oh wait, nobody knows them. Nobodies. Shucks.

[@PK-sc2vn]

​@@RifleEyez 😂😂🔥🔥💩

[@pauloshea9978]

Why do i smell something foul here?

[@tenthousanddays2103]

This fiction has a longer shelf life than most. It' beginning to turn.

[@pauloafonso7167]

The war was lost for the Germans when the Red Army struck back in December 1941, destroying the east campaign. D-Day was a turning point, but the war was already lost for the Germans.

[@OhBrotherMAn]

Here’s a better answer: the fight for Europe was lost when the capitalists and communists teamed up to defeating nationalism and Western values.

[@Christian-qu8zi]

Peiper was not aware of the Malmedy killings and especially did not order them. These are the facts. If you want vengeance, then just do it "Russian style" but don't claim that this was justice. Peiper was released prematurely because his trial blatantly violated every step of conducting a standard military trial.

[@janeharper9329]

peiper was guilty

[@mikebellis5713]

I wonder when Bush and Blair will be tried for ordering the murder of a million Iraqi civilians? Oh, but they were the victors........

[@24934637]

Burning to death is a horiffic way to die. Many years ago I accidentally set fire to a work colleague. The event was fully investigated and I was found to be 'Not at fault' by the Health and Safety Executive, and that was also the opinion of my other work colleagues who saw the accident AND the person involved. During the aftermath of this event I witnessed the horrendous suffering of a victim of severe burns from top of head down to waist level. I still feel guilty about this (even now, and it happened on 21st June 2001) depite it being totally accidental. The girl involved survived but passed away a few years later from Miocardial Fibrosis, scarring on the heart tissue suspected of being brought on by severe stress. ANYONE Who uses burns as a method of deliberate killing in war deserves to suffer. I don't mean people killed in fires where the primary aim was to destroy housing / factories / industry and they just happened to be in the way such as the firestorms that occurred in Dresden during the Second World War, but setting fire to people on purpose is utterly barbaric and deserves punishment of equal severity and agony.

[@MoManny]

Wow! How did that happen where it engulfed her entire body and it was an accident?? Sounds horrific

[@24934637]

I had a petrol (Gasolene) can from my car that was filled up with parraffin (Kerosene), we were all sitting round a fire on the beach, and the fire died down a bit, I poured some of the paraffin onto the fire (Under normal circumstances perfectly safe), however some petrol (gasolene) vapour in the container, ignited, and blew 5 litres of burning paraffin, directly at her. @@MoManny

[@michaelmalone4268]

There are no picnic tables in our section of the campground.

[@mushfiquealam6895]

Human life was less than insects to these people? How can anyone be so cruel....

[@JYRIVIRMA]

Much too long history spot. Mostly commonly known facts. The actual news was only in the last few minutes of the video. Poorly planned editing. Sorry. Not good World History channel!

[@socratesgeorgekazolias]

There is more to the story. The WWII war crimes tribunal basically covered up our own war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[@Desertfox14]

Of course they did. They can't have their criminal evidence put out for all to see. It is talked about today though.

[@jf5-mars334]

History is written by the winner

[@user-fs6kp4pe4y]

" Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field". Bravo!.

[@jacksonreilly3441]

Still waiting to see if you have the nerve to make a video on OPERATION KEELHAUL but not holding my breath.

[@snoox27]

Lest we forget

[@lorijohnson1478]

This guy was one of the nastiest in the German army. And that's saying something.

[@alfiemcaleer6059]

Monty ordered the bombing of Caen which caused 12,000 deaths, bomber Harris was one of the biggest mass murderers of the second World War. I don't hear you bleating about that.

[@Plan-C]

ps it was not the 'radical right' the word Nazi is a shortened form of the word 'Nationalsozialist' which means, quite literally, National SOCIALIST.

[@brentinnes5151]

NAZI is an abbreviation of NSDAP, National Socialist German Workers Party..Hitler was the head of this party after he kicked out Drexler its hitherto leader in early 20's

[@zosothezephead837]

Great account, but almost impossible to read the text while listening to the commentary.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

We wrote those texts inside the video for those who want some additional information. Some viewers pause the video or watch it twice. Trust me, for us it is an incredible amount of extra work. Thanks for watching our videos and have a great day.

[@billywestfall]

Where do you get your excellent videos.. I've never seen such good quality videos before on other sites!

[@tenthousanddays2103]

Chabad Lubavitch

[@TheDigitalApple]

I was wondering when we’d see a video about the Malmedy massacre.

[@takenoprisoners6530]

WOW. J6 defendants got harsher sentences 😱

[@bftdr]

the stab in the back phrase referring to german defeat in ww1 was not of german origin. a british military attache was dining with ludendorff who was discoursing on the german defeat. the military attache volunteered the phrase 'like a stab in the back.' ludendorff jumped on the phrase and began repeating it as a way of summing up what happened to germany at the end of ww1. the phrase then entered into german rhetoric about its defeat by traitors on the home front.

[@Trebor74]

Ludendorff approved the armistice,then when he didn't like the terms he made himself scarce so he wouldn't officially have anything to do with it. It was Ludendorff that stabbed Germany in the back.

[@brentinnes5151]

bit more complex...used to blame Jews and Weimar Republic and a major tool in Hitler coming to power

[@tancreddehauteville764]

Ordering the burning of 800 civilians for the wounding of two officers? This guy was a mental case. A good looking one, but still completely mental. His other criminal actions also prove this. He was also an idiot for not publicly apologising for his crimes and provoking people again with aggressive statements, which finally resulted in his murder.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

That was a national policy from the highest levels. Parisans had NO rights at all in WW2. Nobody forced them to become illegal combatants and get their fellow countrymen killed.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

This comment is coming from somebody that has NO understand of the world as it was in 1944. None whatsoever. He didn't do anything worse than the Soviets or the British or Americans or many , of us wouldn't have done in his place. Murdering a soldier because he didn't crawl on his belly and beg for forgiveness for a non-crime is just so 1990's. The person posting this tripe is judging the man by recent modern standards or is just one of those people that can't understand that their opinion isn't the only one in the world. This soldier was murdered by cowardly people.@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098

[@tancreddehauteville764]

@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 His troops committed crimes in Italy as well, as a result of his commands.

[@terrancenorris9992]

And then,,,, the past catches up with you...😜☺

[@uberrox452]

The US never should have given Peiper such a light sentence. He only served 10 years in prison.

[@mutteringmale]

How did this guy only get 12 years in prison instead of swinging on a rope? Who was paid off? Why? What secrets did he have that needed a commutation of his sentence?

[@charliesmith4072]

The short answer is that a number of U.S. politicians, principally Senator Joseph McCarthy, pulled strings to get the sentence commuted. McCarthy was a deeply corrupt scum bucket.

[@crazyoilfieldmechanic3195]

The Americans that fought the war went home and pencil pushers during the war ran the trials. Then in 1950 the German government took over responsibility of all German war criminals and commuted all of their sentences to time served by 1956.

[@JorgeCruz-mi5gc]

The German Socialist justice system. With Germany rebuilding post WW2, many prisoners were released to help rebuild the nation. Another factor as stated in the video of German prisoners that were tortured by US Army guards, caused other former German soldiers to get a reduced sentencing.

[@petervonstamer7859]

The only reason Peiper & Karl Wolff plus quite a few others were released was because off Allen Dulles OSS operations

[@Christian-qu8zi]

What about conducting a massive faulty trial?

[@ElizabethMurphy-dd4bq]

Thanks

[@jameshowland7393]

The narrator sounds just like "Boris the Animal" from Men In Black!

[@dr-rexmangrca113]

THE WINNERS IN WARS NEVER COMMIT WARS CRIMES ONLY THE LOSERS

[@teddydog6229]

The United States committed atrocities beyond counting in Vietnam and lost that war. And it can hardly be argued that the war in Iraq was ‘won’ and if you don’t believe the US committed atrocities there I’d suggest you Google images for ‘Abu Ghraib’ and prepare to be dazzled. By the same token the North Vietnamese communists that took over South Vietnam behaved brutally and that’s nothing compared to the communists who took over Cambodia. So not only is that a cliche but it’s an untrue one as well.

[@dr-rexmangrca113]

@@teddydog6229i ow ... I KNOW ...DID YOU KNOW MOST TO THE LEADERS BELONG TO FREEMASONS ORG ? EVEN THE COMMUNISTS BASTARDS DOGS ... LOOK AT PHOTOS OF KARL MARX YOU SEE HE HAS COLD HANDS ..... MANY TIMES RIGHT HAND IN COAT

[@helmuthahn5195]

The winners always get away with their dirty deeds

[@philippehendrickx1109]

​@helmuthahn5195 in relative recent history all those who started a war lost.

[@teddydog6229]

@@philippehendrickx1109 That’s a fair point. It’s about a a 50-50 split between loss or bloody stalemate. Can anyone really say who ‘won’ the Sierra Leone civil war ? And call it a hunch but there won’t be a victor in the current Israeli-Hamas bloodbath either. As for the losers vanishing into unheralded silence, the South lost the American Civil War in 1865 and haven’t shut up about it since. So again - that’s a wildly inaccurate proverb.

[@peternicholson1167]

This is one of the best military history videos I've ever watched in a sense of education.. when I was young..I read the story of Joachim Peiper's rescue of soldiers from Kharkov but until now I didn't know anything about him...I didn't realise he was such a sadistic killer.. right untill the end of his life he couldn't accept his terrible war crimes.

[@garryherd3042]

Don't believe this bs

[@barrymitchell6444]

@@garryherd3042 Go ahead and elaborate. Say exactly what information is wrong in the video, and replace it with your version. My guess is you're an all-mouth ignoramus.

[@beyondfubar]

12 years. Holy shit man.

[@baltrade5637]

I believe there are unsettled souls linking around till today!

[@bobsullivan5714]

Just think....If Joachim Peiper had survived to 2023, he could have been a full professor at Harvard.....He's their kind of people.

[@jopflah416]

Nonsense he’d be a card carrying member of the republican party and MAGA.

[@aidjunkie5335]

Joachim Peiper lived. Read the Environmental Gardeners by NR Baldwin, where Peiper features in later life.

[@CliveAdlam-yn8uz]

He's not around now.

[@karlheinzvonkroemann2217]

Yeah, he moved in with the Hitler in Argentina and lived happily every after.