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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 and war criminal convicted for the Malmedy massacre of U.S. Army prisoners of war (POWs). 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 encouraged, expected, and tolerated 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. As a tank commander, Peiper served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) in the Eastern Front and in the Western Front, first as a battalion commander and then as a regimental commander. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joachim Peiper has received more than 2,333,643 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Peiper is the 171st most popular military personnel (up from 177th in 2019), the 397th most popular biography from Germany (up from 414th in 2019) and the 40th 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 171 out of 1,468Before him are Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Abraha, Pyotr Bagration, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Joseph Joffre, and Ernst Busch. After him are Auguste de Marmont, Dietrich von Choltitz, George Armstrong Custer, Paul Tibbets, Józef Poniatowski, and Hans Krebs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 18Before him are Eli Wallach, Billie Holiday, Arthur Miller, Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, and Yitzhak Shamir. After him are Paul Tibbets, Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Saul Bellow, Fred Hoyle, and Hu Yaobang. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 21Before him are Man Ray, Benjamin Britten, Henrik Dam, J. Paul Getty, Alexander Calder, and Ulrike Meinhof. After him are Benjamin Graham, Jacques Monod, Anneliese Michel, Eyvind Johnson, Zhu De, and Rudolf Bultmann.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 397 out of 6,142Before him are Louise Mountbatten (1889), Richard Dedekind (1831), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Harald zur Hausen (1936), Ernst Busch (1885), and Hans Eysenck (1916). After him are Hans Lippershey (1570), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Robert Ley (1890), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), Klaus Meine (1948), and Christopher of Bavaria (1416).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 40Before him are Paul Hausser (1880), Ferdinand Schörner (1892), Georg von Küchler (1881), Helmuth Weidling (1891), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Dietrich von Choltitz (1894), Hans Krebs (1898), Oskar Dirlewanger (1895), Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Walther von Reichenau (1884), and Wilhelm List (1880).