Sadistic Nazi SS Officer burned alive for his crimes during World War 2 - Joachim Peiper

[@jimbridson1731]

My dad spent Christmas, 1944, in a foxhole in the Battle of the Bulge. Thanks, Dad, and all the other heroes of WWII.

[@andreajohnson5100]

When I worked in a senior care home ,I took care of a 102 year old man ,who recieved an award for his service in the battle of the bulge.I love and miss you and your wife.❤😢

[@margaretwood152]

🔎" *History* is a *_LlE_*_ agreed upon. "_ 🔍

[@tl8319]

On which side? When I was a kid, my best friend’s parents had escaped Germany when their families had been sent to the camps. Decades later I find out they escaped after the war to avoid responsibility for the side they were actually on.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

My uncle was wounded in the battle of the bulge. He died in 2008 at the age of 88.

[@TheGecko213]

In 1998 , I worked at the NHS hospital near Norfolk in UK Met an octogenarian patient who recounted me story of the operation Market Garden in which he was a paratrooper from UK Salute to to old guy who may have passed away by now 😢

[@kdallas636]

There are NO BOUNDARIES for human cruelty and sadism

[@RebeccaLarson-v7n]

True💧

[@DrMontague]

The west supports the Genocide of the Palestinians!

[@KenHubbard-jz1vq]

PERFECT EXAMPLE. THE UN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, VIETNAMESE VICTIMS 2,000,000 . IRQUI 1,300,OOO DEAD , AFGHANISTAN 1,OOO,OOO ,+ DEAD IN ALL 3 CASES. MOSTLY CIVILIANS WOMEN CHILDREN BABIES NO ONE SPARED

[@KenHubbard-jz1vq]

THESE ATROCITIES ARE NOWHERE AS BAD AS THOSE COMMITTED BY AMERICA ON MANY SEPERATE OCCATIONS SUCH AS THE 2,OOO,OOO VIETNAMESE DEATHS MOSTLY CIVILIANS WOMEN GRAND PARENTS CHILDREN BABIES MOTHERS , THEN THERE'S IRQUI ANOTHER 1,300 000 DEAD AGAIN MOSTLY CIVILIANS , AFGHANISTAN 1 OOO,OOO + AGAIN MOSTLY CIVILIANS ​ THATS AMERICA FOR YOU AND THEY WANT TO LEAD THE WORLD OUR SAVIOR MR PUTIN 🇷🇺 🇨🇳🇻🇳🇷🇺🇨🇳🇻🇳@@RebeccaLarson-v7n

[@rich-ard-style6996]

😞😢unfortunately very true through human history worldwide and as long as humans exist. We need only read the history. It is available for us to learn and we have the freedom in USA which we should and must protect.

[@stevenleslie8557]

It amazes me that men can do terrible things to other people and expect to just settle down peacefully in suburbia and not expect retribution for their war crimes.

[@disbud596]

In the military, orders are orders.

[@nzfalcon6578]

so true

[@BRH0587]

​@@disbud596yes and no. You can refuse an illegal order.

[@disbud596]

@@BRH0587 good luck with that in Nazi Germany

[@hmminteresting22]

@@disbud596 but they don't have to be carried out with relish

[@robertmiller2173]

Just a note my father was in WW2 and fought the Italians, Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. My father was in the NZ Army. He told me that they were ordered not to take Germans and Italians Prisoners in the heat of a major battle!

[@SometimeAngel]

The narrator's voice rising 4 octaves in every sentence is another form of torture

[@jeffreystreeter5381]

Agreed, not a smooth speaker. His voice is like gargling with barbed wire.

[@ridethecurve55]

Nobody here is forcing you to listen, right? Me thinks you complain too much.

[@JarrodButali]

Hes def huffing his own farts

[@sixtiessoull]

Terrible voice....

[@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.

[@portcityrulez]

Kinda got to fault the French. They allowed a German war criminal to enter and live in there country. They could of stopped that at the gate

[@regwatson2017]

@@portcityrulez True enough.

[@sassycat6487]

Seems like classic psychopath. Like how many serial killers liked to taunt the police

[@regwatson2017]

@@sassycat6487 Very true !

[@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?

[@Romulan007]

😂😂😂😂😂​@@BB-gs5rs

[@goaskmymom1350]

​@@osric1730I bet you and Hitler would have gotten along well with each other. 🤡

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@LuZhao-z4q]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@Citizenfitz1]

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.

[@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.

[@eelchiong6709]

Same with the useful idiots defending H@ma$. Nothing really changed.

[@hellspwnnix9514]

@@martinidry6300 bloody nazi sympathieser @martinidry6300 bloody nazi sympathieser

[@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.

[@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

[@dianealbrecht496]

Someone once said, "There is no such thing as a bad peace, nor is there such a thing as a good war".

[@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!😅😅😅

[@tonyclough9844]

​@terryyakamoto3488 it's true the fire burns all the fluids in your body, and 90% of your body are fluids.

[@see6052]

It's a horific thought. I just went to Google it. I'm glad I didn't look now

[@Kikacanalong]

It was the body of the Jewish House slave named Dobby that Joachim kept under stairs..

[@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

[@sallys9294]

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

[@Dingoroaming]

And yet how many Stupid people are supporting Hamas?

[@Timedelayedfuse]

Human person

[@jhaynes6052]

To the producers of this and many other WWII videos I would respectfully ask that you slow down the delivery of your narrators so we may understand fully what they have to say. Please slow it down. Thanks.

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

I had no time to listen to the narrator and read the lengthy caption at the same time. I had to stop the video just to read the caption, and hope when I began the video again that I remembered what they narrator was saying. 👎

[@Cece-dad17]

Watch a different documentary?

[@ALLGODSDIE]

You're listening too slow

[@TBONE0803]

You could use the settings and turn down the playback speed

[@jacquelinedavis6607]

@@ALLGODSDIE For me I have an auditory processing problem. If someone speaks quickly, my brain is receiving the information slower, processing it slower and therefore I don't know the content of the rest of the sentence. Closed captioning on TV is a blessing. Otherwise, I must ask people to repeat. I am 67 and loss of hearing

[@barrywilliams360]

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

[@tenthousanddays2103]

It's fiction.

[@knowone6214]

when did ya finally wake up

[@doreenross920]

​@@knowone6214these people were murderers what did millions of children do wrong.

[@juergen8361]

​@@tenthousanddays2103 No it's not fiction this actually happened during World War II. The Nazi party political party was made out of right-wingers AKA Republicans they were responsible for the Holocaust. It says so in the beginning of this clip and not only that it's in our history books and if you don't know that then you are a dumbass😂

[@hondaxl250k0]

Ya ever look up the history of democrats? Almost as bad.

[@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!!!!

[@wingedlyon]

Just like the US England France and Canada look up the bombing on Dresden and the other cities in Germany during world war II then talk s***

[@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

[@GregorSass-Ranitz]

Stop sucking up to Isr🔯el.

[@janschkeuditz6065]

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

[@GregorSass-Ranitz]

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

[@janschkeuditz6065]

@@GregorSass-Ranitz 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.

[@timhoward5863]

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

[@lichang-l3m]

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.

[@lichang-l3m]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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?

[@jeffblacky]

My grand uncle was a tanker NCO with the 12th SS during this battle His panzer 4 was knocked out and then fought on as infantry because of tank losses though break downs or hits from enemy ordnance I asked him in 2000 before he died About some of the massacres that happened He said he didn’t find out until he was wounded and captured by some Canadian units ( or possible British units with Canadian troops ) He was beaten severely and had most of his front teeth kicked out because he wore the SS on his collar He was later treated and interrogated about unit , movement, troop strength and the shootings His decorations taken from a panzer badge , iron cross second class and his silver wound badge He was put into a camp and transferred to a holding camp until he was shipped to the US at a camp in Arizona

[@timhazeltine3256]

I don't have a shred of sympathy for Nazis

[@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.

[@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 .

[@muskokamike127]

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

[@gamereactz]

I know what bs

[@scottnassler]

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

[@colder5465]

Peiper wasn't some evil exception. Every SS officer was more or less the same. And they all committed horrible war crimes on the Eastern Front. The difference was Peiper was transferred to the West and he acted there exactly as he used to act in the East. So for him there was no difference executing American POWs. They killed hundreds of thousand Soviet POWs - why it must be different in the West? But Americans were greatly offended, yeah. Another such case is SS-Division Das Reich and its infamous officer Silvester Stadler. They burned alive French village Oradur-sur-Glan. For them this wasn't a big deal - they burned thousands of such villages in the USSR. But the French??? Nevertheless, Das Reich evaded justice. Because a lot of its soldiers came from Alsace, after the war Alsace became French, and it was decided to hush-hush the case. And then former commander of 2nd SS Panzer Corps which united SS Divisions Das Reich, Leibstandart Adolf Hitler and Totenkopf General Paul Hausser wrote a memoir with the title Soldaten wie alle andere where he insisted that Waffen SS were just ordinary soldiers only with Swastikas. Many believed.

[@brentinnes5151]

so whats your point...all ss were nazi scum...ran death camps that killed 7 mill women and children..waffen ss just had tanks...thats all there is to it

[@ashrakus]

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

[@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.

[@gowdsake7103]

Wow can you walk and talk ?

[@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.😂

[@ANewDawn01]

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

[@santallum]

Yes .. total BS .... makes you wonder how much of the other stuff in the video is BS too

[@WaltherPPK909]

​@@santallumHe wasn't just kicked in the balls, they tortured him for hours and dragged them out of their cells to fake trials in the middle of the night where they were beaten for giving answers that weren't confessions. It was so bad that US politicians intervened and said that the details obtained in the fake trials were tainted.

[@brandinicole1372]

Could have been a mistranslation from the neighbor statement.

[@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.

[@samspencer582]

The men of Abwehr were heroes, they were against Hitler.

[@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.

[@swannoir7949]

Bastogne ... they had it rough over there.

[@doreenross920]

​@@swannoir7949U don't say

[@copperlemon1]

The defamation never ends.

[@uberrox452]

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

[@jeroenverzijl8596]

the US made a SS officer head of the space program and the Director of the Nasa, Werner Braun, but most americans don't know the difference between the Nsdap and The SS, they think it is all the same! The Nsdap or for short Nazi party is a political party and not being a member could lead to you going to concentrationcamp, here the naziparty and ss are also treated the same

[@Mister_Jimmy]

It was purely political. Only a few years after Germany’s surrender, the appetite for trials and executions abated. Building relationships with West Germany became more important.

[@ThemoonsFullofgoons-qn9xl]

His crime was only being a in charge he didn’t order any of the killings he wasn’t even there when they happened he took responsibility for his soldier and was sentenced for that

[@benadam7753]

LOL! The Americans did it first! Before Malmedy, the US brutality executed German and Italian soldiers! First at Biscari, Italy in 1943 when the US 45th Infantry executed 75 surrendered Italian and German soldiers! During D-Day 64 surrendered German soldiers were shot and killed! Than after D-Day the US 82nd Airborne executed 30 surrendered regular German Army prisoners at Audouville-la-Hubert, France! Prosecuting Germans for doing the same thing Americans were doing first was highly hypocritically!

[@benaveiga546]

Joaquim Piper was an SS officer. He killed the men through lack of food to maintain them. They didn't have enough food for themselves. He wasn't sadistic. He did was he did. Americans also did the same in Italy.

[@jerseyforhawks]

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

[@Sion_Revan]

That movie is brutal

[@wilsondejonge280]

His body had shrunk to a length of about 60 cm??? Whose child was that and where did Pieper go? Since when did bodiesd (bones and all, shrink in a fire ?

[@AnnRoseMP]

4:28 'despite not being tall, blonde, and muscular' always crack me up😅

[@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........

[@chrisstewart226]

Still a Nazi

[@morge...]

​@@janeharper9329Nope

[@johnhanson9245]

You have absolutely no facts to back that up...None...Do you really think that Peiper who was an assistant to Himmler of all people was a nice person? LMAO

[@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.

[@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?

[@totallynottrademarked5279]

@@garettanderson6772 Depends. Am I talking to a biologist or psychologist? I also assume you mean man because the argument was never over the word male. The discussion was always over gender (a set of behaviors typically displayed predominantly by one sex but not exclusively) and not the biological sex of the person.

[@mikrich76]

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

[@ElizabethMurphy-dd4bq]

Thanks

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Dear Elizabeth, thank you so much!

[@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

[@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.

[@jerrydelacruz5119]

"This kangaroo court at Nuremberg was officially known as the 'International Military Tribunal.' That name is a libel on the military profession. Nuremberg was, in fact, a lawyers' tribunal, although I can readily understand why the legal profession is ashamed to claim it, and deliberately stuck a false label on it. I am glad our real military men had nothing to do with the travesty on justice that the lawyers and 'statesmen' conducted on Nuremberg." - Rear Admiral Dan V. Gallery. U.S.N. (Ret.)

[@bigdongbob838]

Nuremberg=show trials. Americans pat themselves on the back for this stuff.

[@evangelicalsnever-lie9792]

I love how today's Nazis keep outing themselves, to be added to the global Mossad database. They know everything about you… 😂

[@bigdongbob838]

@@evangelicalsnever-lie9792 Yeah I'm sure you love how increasing numbers of humans aren't afraid of you and your tribe anymore.

[@evangelicalsnever-lie9792]

@@bigdongbob838 I'm merely a neutral observer making a truthful observation from the sidelines. There's these guys who support Trump, called Nazis. Yeah, they're the one who promise to finish the job for their fuher. So _those_ are the ones, your own people right? They spread all kinds of conspiracy theories. They're the ones saying that everyone like you, is being listed by the world premier Nazi Hunters. And you believe it. So does that mean you're _that_ hardcore of a Nazi, that you have _been_ afraid but are no longer afraid? What changed? It was Trump, wasn't it. He's a huge part 😂 Hey, I'm just telling you, what you guys tell each other. Then you get mad 🙄 This seems to have caused an emotional response; "Not afraid _anymore."_ What is it that you're afraid of? That claim comes from you guys. You'll believe damn near anything after all 😂

[@luisangelgonzalezmunoz7071]

May be you are more happy with the nazi justice system. By the way, nazis did not bother with legal proceedings. They just shot you, or sent you to an extermination camp without any legal excuses. What some random Rear Admiral thought is totally irrelevant. Rear Admirals know about ships, not about international tribunals. And for what I know, America is governed by politicians elected by the people, not by admirals. Fortunately.

[@Hogan231]

This SS Officer.

[@robertomeneghetti6215]

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

[@archlich4489]

...got miniaturized

[@stevenmanglis7368]

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

[@freeroamer9146]

Accusations were never fully proven, nor was he burned alive. You should check your references! After the war he worked in both Germany and France as a manufacturing consultant. He died from asphyxiation with rifle in hand as he shot at arsonists responsible for starting the fire.

[@businessman3224]

It was never proven that Peiper did the malmendy massacre, most of the soldiers under his command published that peiper was a charming, gentle man that respected the rules of war. He even punished soldiers that stole food from civilians because he had a deep respect voor Belgium’s and French culture, even so that he thought he was more French then German. I can say peiper was probably a victim of being forced to get on trial not because of the crimes he so called committed but more for the political reasons the allies wanted to get out of the Nazi trials. I don’t personally believe that Joachim Peiper was a murderer. Memoirs and eye witnesses close to him say otherwise

[@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!

[@Nutmegsyourman]

Best narrated channel on KZbin.

[@anngray9171]

Yes, but what a funny voice. Makes the topic somewhat difficult to follow. Surely there are many people available who can speak properly?

[@esKeptiko]

I was about to say the same. I can't tell if it's AI or a fellow with really strange intonation. @@anngray9171

[@paultwiss199]

@@anngray9171 I agree he has a very odd voice and it is not nice to listen to at all.He actually sounds like an exaggerated comedy character in a British show

[@slavedriver394]

@@paultwiss199 very strange and irritating.

[@robertanderson809]

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

[@maryannweldin4633]

Nazis were some of the most sadistic outlook ever

[@1DaRavishing]

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

[@eltorocal]

...ain't no Hate like their Christian Love... Reich?

[@btzimmer]

@@eltorocal Wrong. Fascism and Christianity are completely different and incompatible ideologies. Someone calling themselves a Christian doesn't make them one. Look it up. You are clearly confused.

[@eltorocal]

@@btzimmer Wow! Listen to You... NOBODY ever said!

[@gregdolecki8530]

@@eltorocal You're not smart.

[@eltorocal]

@@gregdolecki8530 Hey dummy... I Am Wise beyond my years... unlike jew, greggy.

[@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

[@lynnfern2116]

😂😂😂 What a load of absolute drivel!!! Bones do not shrink in a fire, no matter how great the heat. A body cannot be 'miniaturised'. The fat, muscle & internal organs burn awat to nothing, & if sufficient heat is generated, the bones reduce to ash.

[@scottcyoung]

Don't ever trust authorities for retribution. Shocking. He then rubbed it in the French noses by living in France

[@APOCLAG]

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.

[@ToasterStrudelFan]

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

[@bernardiffli1279]

Laissez Joachim Peiper en paix.

[@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

[@spykerhond7008]

the model and hopefully moral of the story is , : DONT conscript. Its already over when this was allowed, disaster would be coming for sure.

[@CoakleyPatrick]

There's just as much of it today and nothing done about it...

[@timothydudley3106]

He was murdered by unknown people!

[@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

[@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.

[@JamesBailey-q2m]

My ? Is why was he allowed to live

[@HistoryChannel1776]

Peiper was a model soldier.

[@mdsf01]

@@JamesBailey-q2m Because he wasn't captured by the soviet orcs.

[@billm83army]

Allies killed prisoners also, documented. But when you win who cares. Double standard

[@youssefalkandari6803]

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

[@The.Pickle]

Same

[@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!"

[@AlessandraAristo]

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.

[@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.

[@andyschannel8279]

Peiper wasn't even there at Malmedy ,but took responsibility as he was the units co,im amazed he had time for battles as so busy commiting war crimes all over Europe and it didnt mention the Jews that came to his trial to help him,dont forget history is written by the victors.

[@Relentless_Venture]

And the losers made it policy to murder woman and children. And they wrote those books themselves and even have video evidence! But plz tell me how Russia, great Britain and the usa made up the SS and all their atrocious acts to fit their narrative. It's not like any of these ss officers kept journals! Or were those also written by the victors?

[@MrQor2]

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

[@tomtom9879]

How the hell did he get away from the justice at the first place??

[@brianblackwelder9533]

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

[@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

[@wingedlyon]

Nope they hated communism they are national socialists it was either be a national socialist or a communist they chose being a national socialist and they did a hell of a job pulling their country out of debt and starving and made incredible advancements

[@paulspiette9394]

I have news for you: THERE IS NO GOD!!

[@TheDigitalApple]

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

[@deansnipah1392]

I mean...he had a point. In 1940, France wasn't brave because they surrendered lol

[@frankrault3190]

There's a massive number among today's people in the Northern Hemisphere, who have a growing sympathy for the Nazis, voting neo-fascist leaders. Right after the Corona Pandemic hatred's point of no return has been reached and that border massively has been crossed now. Initially the new Nazi's will gain much power in several countries, and will immitate the Nazi's of WW II, or even worse. There's another thing too, that is beyond the point of no return: Good people are already designing how justice should be done after the neo Nazis are defeated. Those who now support the neo Nazis will eventually face justice, and their fate will unavoidably be similar to that of the sentenced Nazis of WW II. Or even worse.

[@davidmathewson1088]

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

[@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.

[@RG-li5zq]

German form of Bidenomics. LOL

[@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.

[@spenserkao2709]

Had Hitler not decided to invade Russia, Staline would less likely to join the Allies, WWII's outcome could be way too different!

[@christierowley4731]

Peiper got away that wasn't his body

[@stuzo666]

War takes no prisoners, why , because war is hell

[@charliesmith4072]

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

[@Chainyanker007]

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.

[@bradstepford3307]

The people at these trials especially the Nuremberg trials are no better than the men and women they handed death to. The group that murdered him in his house are no better than the man they torched in fact their all worse because they killed people during peace times and not during war where either you follow orders or die. The allies praised themselves as being better than the Nazis yet they themselves murdered unarmed people. How can anyone claim their better when they deal death and get away with it without any trials? With all that said the award for the most amount of people killed in the least amount of time still goes to the USA with little boy and fat-man, they killed hundreds of thousands of people most of which were civilians in a matter of minutes and created suffering for generations to come. Even before the 2 big bombs the allies constantly killed civilians and participated in war crimes, Dresden was the biggest of them all. The allies bombed it during the night, which was a war crime, than waited till people came out to help others and put out the flames and dropped another round of bombs most of which were incendiary. This tactic in itself is a war crime under the Geneva convention as are the many bridges the allies bombed which were used by civilians. Can’t bomb bridges used by civilians yet they all did and only germany was punished for it. The battle plan for Nagasaki even illustrates that the bomb would be detonated over the central bridge as it would cause the most amount of casualties. No it wouldn’t matter if that bomb was dropped 100’ from the bridge, but it’s still a war crime and the allies as leaders of the tribunal should set the example and follow their own laws. The whole thing is messed up and so much is cherry picket from the events of ww2, I bet things would be a lot different if everyone had camera cell phones back than. Not hard to sway a population with news papers and a few short grainy images. Did bad things happen? Yes of course they did it was a full on war, but we never get a full story from both sides and like all the history books their littered with personal views and cherry picked events.

[@Stwalen]

They need to read Kurt Vonnegut to understand what war is, and not judge it while lying on the couch. War is an inevitable evil.

[@NiqueSmith]

The execution of Joachim Peiper is the strangest execution of World War II. Thanks for that info.

[@jeffreystreeter5381]

Excellent presentation

[@michael1968-m9b]

and the people who did this are cowards

[@davidhoward4715]

Unlike the Nazis who murdered millions of innocent civilians?