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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) colonel, convicted 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. As a tank commander, Peiper served in the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) on the Eastern Front and on the Western Front, first as a battalion commander and then as a regimental commander. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Peiper is the 185th most popular military personnel (down from 163rd in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from Germany (down from 400th in 2019) and the 39th 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 185 out of 2,058. Before him are Giovanni Giustiniani, Józef Poniatowski, Michiel de Ruyter, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Ernst Busch, and Alois Brunner. After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, Felix Steiner, Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Desmond Doss, and Paul Hausser.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Joachim Peiper ranks 27. Before him are Hu Yaobang, Sviatoslav Richter, John Vorster, Saul Bellow, Aung San, and Robert A. Dahl. After him are Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Fred Hoyle, Robert Hofstadter, and Curd Jürgens. Among people deceased in 1976, Joachim Peiper ranks 24. Before him are Man Ray, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Henrik Dam, Jacques Monod, Benjamin Britten, and Lars Onsager. After him are Ulrike Meinhof, J. Paul Getty, Gustav Heinemann, Raymond Queneau, Alexander Calder, and Anneliese Michel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 476 out of 7,253. Before him are Erich Kästner (1899), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Maria Alexandrovna (1824), Friedrich Fromm (1888), Heinrich Mann (1871), and Konrad Zuse (1910). After him are Louis the Child (893), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767), Johann Bayer (1572), Carl von Ossietzky (1889), Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (1573), and Franz Brentano (1838).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Joachim Peiper ranks 39. Before him are Helmuth Weidling (1891), Hermann Fegelein (1906), Michael Wittmann (1914), Hans Krebs (1898), Maurice de Saxe (1696), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848), Paul Hausser (1880), Georg von Küchler (1881), Alfred von Schlieffen (1833), Henning von Tresckow (1901), and Dietrich von Choltitz (1894).

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