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.

Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. Current politicians please note.

How in the world was this guy released from prison after only 12 years? Wow.

Amazing how even all those years ago and after all those lives taken so brutally, the authorities still went soft on these killers.

Small note: Peiper commanded the Panzer battalion of the 1sr SS Panzer Division. He was not the overall division commander.

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

These computer generated narrations drive me nuts. I can stand it for about five minutes then have to reluctantly switch off.

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.

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.

Bones do not shrink. As a fire fighter I disagree with the 60 cm claim

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.

Believe me. There are millions like him today, and they're ready to act in prol of those sick ideals..😢😢😢

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.

I always find it amusing when someone refers to socialists and communists as being part of the political "right".

how ready we are to condemn history while we stay blind to the present

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.

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

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

Miniaturized by fire? Never heard of that one before.

How they were able to plead that they had been abused to void the trial is beyond me. Ridiculous.

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

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

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

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

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.

Amazing how porsche is still doing so well, with what we most of us knew about the company's past

Rest in peace to the American victims from a fellow American and as well as the millions of innocent victims that were also murdered

After the Bulge operation Peiper retreated to a sanatorium with severe exhaustion - PTSD (as we call it today)

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

A demonic spirit of revenge dominates this program.

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.

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.

How can a nation be so evil.

The character of Col. Hessler (played by Robert Shaw) in the movie _The Battle of the Bulge_ is loosely based on Pieper.

War takes no prisoners, why , because war is hell

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.

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.

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.

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

You reap what you sow....

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

Murdered by French cowards. Where were they during the war.? Sad end to a brilliant soldier who was highly regarded by military historians.

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

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

When will we ever learn from the past???

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.

This SS Officer.

@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

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

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.

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

There is more to the story. The WWII war crimes tribunal basically covered up our own war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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

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

An Uncle of mine was one of the last acting Artillery Officers aboard the BattleCruiser Gneisenau when she was scuttled at Gdynia. He may have been an Officer, but he was definately not an active Nazi. If he had been, he would definately not have become one of the, if not the first civilian Police-Presidents (Chief of Police for whole Hamburg) of Hamburg after the War. According to my Aunt he was very well liked.

The title is nonsense, and an American officer who captured him briefly, testified in his favour at his trial. He was a tank commander and never committed any atrocities although he was implicated, by virtue of command, in the Malmady shooting"

Gotta love the biased language and how routine anti-guerrilla warfare is even labeled a “war crime.” Bravo for succumbing to the narrative. Also, maybe do a video for the 60,000 French civilians killed by Allied bombings.

I really can't believe that these people were this sad

Why do i smell something foul here?

Just think....If Joachim Peiper had survived to 2023, he could have been a full professor at Harvard.....He's their kind of people.

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

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

" Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field". Bravo!.

Important to detail the horrific crimes and dedication to evil of this man. Unbelievable that he was relatively lightly punished in this lifetime, until the end.

Take your own war crimes and shame yourself. And don't lei about good German soldiers. Cheers

Burning to death is a horiffic way to die. Many years ago I accidentally set fire to a work colleague. The event was fully investigated and I was found to be 'Not at fault' by the Health and Safety Executive, and that was also the opinion of my other work colleagues who saw the accident AND the person involved. During the aftermath of this event I witnessed the horrendous suffering of a victim of severe burns from top of head down to waist level. I still feel guilty about this (even now, and it happened on 21st June 2001) depite it being totally accidental. The girl involved survived but passed away a few years later from Miocardial Fibrosis, scarring on the heart tissue suspected of being brought on by severe stress. ANYONE Who uses burns as a method of deliberate killing in war deserves to suffer. I don't mean people killed in fires where the primary aim was to destroy housing / factories / industry and they just happened to be in the way such as the firestorms that occurred in Dresden during the Second World War, but setting fire to people on purpose is utterly barbaric and deserves punishment of equal severity and agony.

There are no picnic tables in our section of the campground.

I watched a podcast where he was found with his neck broken at the bottom of the stairs of his French cottage.

This guy was one of the nastiest in the German army. And that's saying something.

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.

I guess this proves You Tube is no better than he was.

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!

You know the smoke got to him before the fire

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.

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.

He was murdered by unknown people!

"mentally ill" somebody was.. Didn't know this is a thing. Isnt it "having special needs" or something? Probably, back then, things were different...

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

where does all this footage come from and how do we know what years / battles its associated with? Im baffled!

Lest we forget

the stab in the back phrase referring to german defeat in ww1 was not of german origin. a british military attache was dining with ludendorff who was discoursing on the german defeat. the military attache volunteered the phrase 'like a stab in the back.' ludendorff jumped on the phrase and began repeating it as a way of summing up what happened to germany at the end of ww1. the phrase then entered into german rhetoric about its defeat by traitors on the home front.

Thanks

Human life was less than insects to these people? How can anyone be so cruel....

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

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.

ps it was not the 'radical right' the word Nazi is a shortened form of the word 'Nationalsozialist' which means, quite literally, National SOCIALIST.

12 years. Holy shit man.

Where do you get your excellent videos.. I've never seen such good quality videos before on other sites!

I may have missed something but I think the maker of this clip said that the Dolchstosslegende (the stab in the back) was started by the Nazi's. It wasn't. It dates to just after World War I. The Nazi's certainly used it, took advantage of it, but didn't create it. Germany after WWI and the Versailles treaty was certainly fertile ground for the Dolchstosslegende though. It was everywhere.

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

The only reason Peiper & Karl Wolff plus quite a few others were released was because off Allen Dulles OSS operations

Peiper a luptat în numele unei ideologii pe teme rasiale și a plătit pentru asta! Știm ce au făcut naziștii și se discută mereu despre crimele li!Dar crimele făcute de aliați în Germania,despre ele de ce nu se discută?Ororile comise de ruși deasemenea în Germania,sunt de neimaginat!Iar ceea ce se întâmplă acum în Ucraina și Gaza,mie îmi demonstrează că în lume,se petrec și se vor petrece atrocități înfiorătoare, pentru că oamenii nu au învățat nimic din cele două războaie mondiale!

14:26 "Hitler....." What a passion to pronounce that name. 🤣

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

Joachim Peiper lived. Read the Environmental Gardeners by NR Baldwin, where Peiper features in later life.