Joachim Peiper

Joachim Peiper

Joachim Peiper (30 January 1915 – 14 July 1976), also known as Jochen Peiper, was a German SS-Obersturmbannführer and convicted war criminal who was responsible for the 1944 Malmedy massacre of American prisoners of war. During World War II in Europe he served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, between September 1939 and September/October 1941, and thereafter as a Waffen-SS commander. During his career with Himmler, Peiper witnessed implementation of SS policies of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Eastern Europe; he persistently denied or obfuscated this fact following the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Peiper has received more than 1,466,769 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Joachim Peiper is the 177th most popular military personnel (down from 147th in 2019), the 414th most popular biography from Germany (down from 351st in 2019) and the 41st 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.