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Joachim Peiper

1915 - 1976

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Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer, war criminal and car salesman. During the Second World War in Europe, Peiper served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS, and as a tank commander in the Waffen-SS. German historian Jens Westemeier writes that Peiper personified Nazi ideology, as a purportedly ruthless glory-hound commander who was indifferent to the combat casualties of Battle Group Peiper, and who tolerated, expected, and indeed encouraged war crimes by his Waffen-SS soldiers. As adjutant to Himmler, Peiper witnessed the SS implement the Holocaust with ethnic cleansing and genocide of Jews in Eastern Europe; facts that he obfuscated and denied in the post-War period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Peiper has received more than 2,519,075 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Joachim Peiper is the 163rd most popular military personnel (up from 171st in 2019), the 400th most popular biography from Germany (down from 397th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Military Personnel.

Joachim Peiper was a German SS officer during World War II. He is most famous for being the commander of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, a Waffen-SS Panzer division, and for his involvement in the Malmedy massacre.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Joachim Peiper ranks 163 out of 2,058. Before him are Semyon Timoshenko, Abraha, Hermann Fegelein, Alexander Selkirk, Joseph Joffre, and Louis, Grand Condé. After him are Semyon Budyonny, Anton Denikin, Matilda of Tuscany, Paul Hausser, Dragut, and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 18. Before him are Orson Welles, Eli Wallach, Paul Samuelson, Billie Holiday, Paul Tibbets, and Stanley Matthews. After him are Hu Yaobang, Jerome Bruner, Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Fred Hoyle, and Saul Bellow. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 18. Before him are Bernard Montgomery, André Malraux, Henrik Dam, Ulrike Meinhof, Man Ray, and J. Paul Getty. After him are Jacques Monod, Eyvind Johnson, Benjamin Britten, Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Leopold Ružička, and Zhu De.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 400 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Bopp (1791), Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776), Sepp Maier (1944), Prince Claus of the Netherlands (1926), Bruno of Cologne (1030), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170). After him are Julius von Mayer (1814), Hans Luther (1879), Otto Diels (1876), Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), and Maria Alexandrovna (1824).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 35. Before him are Franz Halder (1884), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), August von Mackensen (1849), Ludwig Beck (1880), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), and Hermann Fegelein (1906). After him are Paul Hausser (1880), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Georg von Küchler (1881), Hans Krebs (1898), and Ernst Busch (1885).

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