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Now in paperback, this authoritative account and assessment of the military career, Dachau war crime trial and murder of Jochen Peiper, Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and the "Siegfried" of the Waffen SS, describes his involvement in the Ardennes offensive and Malme'dy Massacre- Illustrated with rare photographs, high quality maps and figures.- Peiper's rise through the ranks of the Fuhrer's Bodyguard Regiment, Die Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.- Peiper's service with Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS.- His fighting record on the Eastern Front and in France.- The first thoroughly objective account of his role as the Commander of the Kampfgruppe Peiper in the 1944 Ardennes offensive, which brought him to particular wartime prominence.- The facts about "The Malme'dy Massacre" on 17 December 1944, when 84 Americans died at the hands of Peiper's men.- The Dachau Trial which led Peiper to the condemned cell in Landsberg prison.- His postwar life as a paroled War Criminal.- Peiper's death during a fire-bomb attack on his home in France in 1976.
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The devil's adjutant Jochen Peiper, panzer leader, Michael Frank Reynolds
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- 2002
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