Peiper was born on January 30, 1915. [132][131] Moreover, the researchers of The Washington Post traced the source of Peiper's colourised photograph to the Twitter account of a proNazi artist who publishes photographs of Nazis, with captions of supportive praise for Nazism and Hitler, and concluded that: It remains unclear how Pentagon and Army officials cleared an image, apparently created by an artist who celebrates Nazi propaganda online, to be published alongside a tribute to the American soldiers who fought and died to defeat a fascist regime 75 years ago. [22] They had three children. During the winter of 1970-1971, Joachim Peiper moved to a small house he and his wife had had built on their land by the Sane River in Traves. Joachim Peiper was previously married to Sigurd Hinrichsen (1939 - 1976).. About. Peiper complained that the roads assigned were suitable for bicycles, but not for tanks; [83] yet the chief of staff Fritz Krmer told Peiper: I dont care how and what you do. [65], On 19 September 1943, in a firefight with the Waffen-SS occupiers, partisan guerrillas of the Italian Resistance Movement killed one soldier and captured two others in the vicinity of Boves, in the Piedmont region of north-west Italy. Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Mayr-034-11A, Griechenland, Himmler mit Offizieren der Waffen-SS.jpg 800 539; 43 KB. [74], In March 1944, the LSSAH was withdrawn from the Eastern Front and sent to be reformed in Nazi-occupied Belgium. An SS sergeant in Peiper's ration supply company later stated that Peiper responded in kind: "In the village, the two petrol trucks were burnt and 25 Germans killed by partisans and Soviet soldiers. [63] After Operation Citadel failed, the LSSAH tank division was redeployed from the Eastern Front in Russia to the north of Fascist Italy. While on 17 December 1944, the units of the Battle Group Peiper at Malmdy, Belgium were advancing to their objectives, by 21 December 1944, continual firefights with the U.S. Army had divided and dispersed scattered Battle Group Peiper, and thus almost trapped Peiper's unit, and Peiper, at La Gleize. On release from Landsberg Prison, Joachim Peiper acted discreetly and did not associate with known Nazis in public, especially with ex-Waffen-SS soldiers and the Mutual Aid Association of Former Waffen-SS Members (HIAG); privately, Peiper remained a true-believer Nazi and member of the secret community of Waffen-SS in the Federal Republic of Germany. [101] The war crimes committed during the Battle of the Bulge were attributed to Battle Group Peiper, so the U.S. Army searched PoW camps for the Waffen-SS soldiers assigned to Peiper's command. The prosecutor countered that, by the time Lt. Col. McCown and his soldiers had been captured on 21 December, battle group commander Peiper already was aware that the tactical situation of being out-numbered, out-gunned, and out-manoeuvred placed Kampfgruppe Peiper in danger of imminent capture by the U.S. Army. Transferred to active duty as a Waffen-SS soldier, Horst fought in the Battle of France (1940) as part of the 3rd SS Panzer Division, and was killed in Poland in June 1941, in a never-fully-explained accident; rumour said that his fellow SS men drove Horst to commit suicide because of his homosexuality. In an interview (Jai pay "I Already Have Paid"), Peiper said he was an innocent man who had paid for his war crimes (referring to the Malmedy massacre) with twelve years of prison. Peiper is buried with his father, mother, brothers and wife in the family plot in the lower part of the cemetery, near the evergreen hedge. [42], As the first and second adjutants, Peiper and Werner Grothmann were aware of and handled all of Himmler's orders and communications. Joachim Peiper ( 1915 - 1976 ) more often known as "Jochen Peiper" from the common German nickname for Joachim; born in Berlin on January 30 , 1915 , was a senior Waffen-SS officer and commander in the Panzer campaigns of 1939-1945. His dutiful wife Sigurd, the ex-SS secretary, and three children were waiting for him. She later married SS Officer, and later convicted war criminal, Standartenfhrer Joachim Peiper. We have just cleansed our society and moved these people into camps, and you let them loose!" [112], On 16 July 1946, the military tribunal for the Malmedy Massacre Trial convicted Obersturmbannfhrer Joachim Peiper of the war crimes of which he was accused, and sentenced him to be hanged. About his visit to the d ghetto, Peiper wrote that it was a macabre image: we saw how the Jewish Ghetto police, who wore hats without rims, and were armed with wooden clubs, inconsiderately made room for us. The episode in the d ghetto indicates Peiper's awareness of the criminality of the Nazi occupations, yet wrote anecdotes about the Jewish Ghetto Police abusing the Jews which were meant to lessen the degree of his complicity in the war crimes of the Waffen-SS and of the Wehrmacht. [109], Despite the damning and incriminating facts that Peiper testified to the military tribunal, the other defendant SS-men, supported by their German lawyers, unwisely asked for the opportunity to testify. #1. The great fame of Peiper as a Waffen-SS commander during the Battle of the Bulge was born. The spearhead continued on, without having fully secured Stavelot. Joachim "Jochen" Peiper remains one of the most enigmatic figures of World War II. [47], The division was followed by Einsatzgruppe D, who were responsible for killing the local Jews, other civilians, Commissars, Red Army soldiers, and partisans. The U.S. forces regrouped and blew up several bridges ahead of Peiper's advance, trapping the battle group in the deep valley of the Amblve, downstream from Trois-Ponts. Joachim Peiper (* 30. janur 1915, Berln, Nemeck cisrstvo - 14. jl 1976, Traves, Franczsko) bol nemeck dstojnk Waffen SS, od novembra 1940 do augusta 1941 osobn pobonk Reichsfhrera-SS H. Himmlera. On 18 May, Peiper became a platoon leader in a unit of the LSSAH motorised regiment. After the war Joachim Peiper was tried and convicted of war crimes, and sentenced to death by hanging on 16 July 1946. Despite not being as tall, blond, and muscular as the Nordic recruits to the SS, Peiper compensated by being a handsome, personable, and self-confident SS officer. He was released in 1956 after serving nearly 12 years. He was married to Sigurd (Sigi) Hinrichsen. Even if you've only one tank left when you get there.[84], Peiper's vehicles reached the point of departure at midnight, which delayed the attack by Kampfgruppe Peiper by almost twenty-four hours. [117] The political lobbying of the network of SS men arranged and realised Peiper's early release from prison and his finding employment; the Mutual Aid Community of Former Members of the Waffen SS (HIAG) already had found employment for Frau Peiper near the Landsberg Prison wherein her husband resided. In the after action report to the LSSAH headquarters, Kampfgruppe Peiper described the Boves massacre as Peiper's heroic defence against anti-German attacks by Communist partisans in which Waffen-SS soldiers battled, defeated, and killed 17 bandits and partisans, and that during the fights [with partisans] the villages of Boves and Costellar were burned down. . Joachim Peiper (1943) Joachim Peiper, (30 January 1915 in Berlin - 14 July 1976 in Traves, Haute-Sane ), also known as Jochen Peiper, was a LSSAH military officer of Nazi Germany during World War II. The morning of July 13th Peiper sent his wife, suffering from cancer, back to Germany. [17], In June 1938, Peiper became an adjutant to Reichsfhrer-SS Himmler, which tour of duty Himmler considered necessary administrative training for a promotable SS leader. Joachim Peiper was born on January 30th, 1915 as the son of an officer's family in Berlin. [56], In August 1944, when an SS commander, formerly of LSSAH, was captured south of Falaise in France and interrogated by the Allies, he stated that Peiper was "particularly eager to execute the order to burn villages". There seems a need with some historians to portray these men in a very favourable light. 2022 - "Joachim Peiper" Rojn Chintamas 148 Pinterest , , Peiper earned more than 20 military awards and honors during his service as a member of the Nazi regime's SS and many of those achievements were accomplished before Peiper reached his mid-twenties in age. Peiper continued west until the road became impassable, a short distance from the town of Ligneuville; that detour compelled Peiper's units towards the Baugnez crossroads, near the city of Malmedy, Belgium. Himmler was particularly fond of Jochen Peiper and took a keen interest in Peiper's ascension towards command. . . 30 January 1915 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; d. 13 July 1976 in Traves, France) was a German officer of the SS and Waffen-SS in World War II.By the end of his military career in 1945, Peiper was the youngest regimental colonel in the Waffen-SS, holding the rank of SS-Standartenfhrer.He also served as personal adjutant to . [92] Without supplies, and with no contact with other German units behind him, Peiper could advance no further. [14], In the April 1935March 1936 period, Peiper trained as a military officer in the SS-Junker School, from which institution the director, Paul Hausser, graduated politically correct Nazi leaders for the Waffen-SS. 6th SS Panzer Army); Fritz Krmer (Dietrich's chief of staff); and Hermann Prie (Cmdr. He himself did not want to leave his house because he expected it to be burned down. Today this is known as the Malmedy Massacre. Burial. Joachim Peiper dating history Relationships. [50], Peiper's battalion left France in January 1943 for the Eastern Front, where the Nazi invaders had begun to lose the initiative, especially in the Battle of Stalingrad. Hello Angie, Peiper and Sigurd Hinrichsen were married on 26 June 1939 in a ceremony following SS customs. [68] Despite the successfully negotiated release of the body and prisoners, Peiper ordered the soldiers of Kampfgruppe Peiper to summarily kill 24 men of the Boves village in retaliation for the resistance of the villagers. As a participant in the Nazi conquest of Poland for German Lebensraum, Peiper witnessed the administrative refinement of SS policies for more effective methods of killing during ethnic cleansing, designed to depopulate Polish lands for German colonists. In 2019, the DoD Facebook account included a colourised military photograph of Peiper in Waffen-SS uniform into an audiovisual commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Army fighting Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS soldiers at the Battle of the Bulge which included the Malmedy Massacre (1944) committed by Kampfgruppe Peiper. [18] As a staff officer, Peiper worked in the anteroom of the SS Main Office in Berlin and became a favourite adjutant of Himmler. [125], In the United States, Obersturmbannfhrer Joachim Peiper is an idol of right-wing Americans who romanticise the Waffen-SS as German war heroes, rather than as Nazi war criminals. Attacking without the benefit of prior reconnaissance by scout units, Peiper's tank-and-infantry frontal assaults against entrenched Red Army units killed too many infantry and cost too much lost matriel for an essentially Pyrrhic victory;[72] thus, after a month of Peiper's command, the 1st SS Panzer Regiment had only twelve working tanks. A video presentation about the life and times of Joachim Peiper.---Messerschmitt presents the second video in his series on Axis War Heroes, this time on Joachim Peiper. Schondorf am Ammersee, Landkreis Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria (Bayern), Germany. Joachim Peiper nebo asto nazvn Jochen Peiper (30. leden 1915 - 14. ervenec 1976) byl nmeck dstojnk Waffen-SS v hodnosti SS-Standartenfhrer a usvden vlen zloinec z druh svtov vlky.Mimo jin byl dritelem mnoha vojenskch vyznamennch vetn rytskho ke s dubovmi ratolestmi a mei.Nikdy se nestal lenem NSDAP He joined the Nazi Party in 1934 as a member of the Waffen-SS. In Occupied Poland, Himmler met with Friedrich-Wilhelm Krger, the Higher SS and Police Leader, and his subordinate, Odilo Globocnik, the SS bureaucrat responsible for deporting the Jews from the cities of Warsaw and Lublin and from the Polish territories already annexed as Lebensraum for Germany. In his testimony, Peiper communicated only calculation about the usefulness of his American prisoners of war, testifying that when the Peiper Battle Group fled afoot from the town of La Gleize, Col. Peiper made hostages of Lt. Col. McCown and some of his soldiers in order to protect his Waffen-SS soldiers from capture by the U.S. Despite that political mis-step, the Pentagon used Peiper's Waffen-SS photograph to represent the German enemy fighting the U.S. Army airborne corps in the Battle of the Bulge. Later that year, Peiper was promoted to SS-Sturmmann at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, where his reputation attracted the notice of Reichsfhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler,[11] for whom Peiper personified Aryanism, the master-race concept promoted by the Nazism taught at the SS officer school. [105] On 16 April 1946, the prison transferred 300 Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS POWs to the Dachau Concentration Camp, where a military tribunal would hear their war-crime cases.[105]. again Communists found out where he and his wife were living and they killed his dogs, before burning the house down with him . Joachim Peiper. [60], In the postWar period, such hyperbolic descriptions of the tactical prowess of the tank commander Peiper glamourised the Waffen-SS man into a war hero of Germany. 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 postWar period. MALMEDY WAR CRIMES TRIALS, DACHAU, GERMANY(MUNICH 250)20 June 1946MS,Lt Col Barton J Ellis of the prosecution staff questioning Joachim Peiper(#42) (Latter n. [79], In autumn of 1944, the Wehrmacht continually repelled Allied assaults to breach, penetrate, and cross the Siegfried Line, whilst Hitler sought opportunity to seize the initiative on the Western Front. The couple later had three children: Hinrich, Elke and Silke. [53], The rescue culminated with a fierce battle with the Soviet forces at the village of Krasnaya Polyana. Peiper's command was in disarray: some units had lost their way among difficult terrain or in the dark, while company commanders preferred to stay with Peiper at the head of the column and thus were unable to provide guidance to their own units. [57] Peiper wrote to Potthast in March 1943: "Our reputation precedes us as a wave of terror and is one of our best weapons. 132.496), which made Peiper an SS Man before the Schutzstaffel was independent of the Sturmabteilung (SA) within the Nazi Party. [136] The anti-Nazi political group The Avengers claimed responsibility for the arson that killed Peiper; nonetheless, because of the destruction caused by the arson, the French police authorities remained unconvinced that Joachim Peiper was the person found. He died on July 13, 1976 in Traves, Haute-Sane, France. [25][26] In later conversation with the explorer Ernst Schfer, Peiper rationalised the actions of the SS to hunt and kill the Polish intelligentsia by ascribing sole command responsibility to Hitler and his superior orders to Himmler.[27]. After the door was closed, one could see how, in the beginning, the insane still laughed and talked to each other. He saw combat on both the Eastern Front against the Red Army and the Western Front against the Allies. He grew up with two older brothers, Hasso and Horst. [73], In December 1943, because of his destructive leadership of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment in Russia, the division command of the LSSAH relieved Peiper of combat duty and transferred him to staff-officer duty at the division headquarters. Poor health then demobilised Waldemar from active duty in Asia Minor. 29 .. [107] Defence counsel Everett then called Lt. Col. Hal D. McCown, commander 2nd Battalion, 119th Infantry Regiment, to give testimony about his captivity as a prisoner of war of the Waffen-SS who captured him and his unit on 21 December 1944, in the vicinity of La Gleize, Belgium. [119] His active social life in the Waffen-SS community included Peiper's public participation in the funerals of dead Nazis, such as those of Kurt Meyer, Paul Hausser, and Dietrich. Airstrikes destroyed or heavily damaged numerous German vehicles. On 30 December 1960, Peiper filed a lawsuit against the Porsche car company,[122] wherein the attorney claimed that Joachim Peiper was not a Nazi war criminal, because the Allies had used the Malmedy massacre trial (1946) as propaganda to defame the German people; likewise the Nuremberg trials (20 November 1945 1 October 1946) and the Malmedy massacre trial were anti-German propaganda. Under the pseudonym Rainer Buschmann, Peiper worked as a self-employed English-to-German translator for the German publisher Stuttgarter MotorBuch Verlag, translating books of military history. In 1976, the historian of the French Communist Party searched the Gestapo files for the personnel file of SS-Oberststurmbannfhrer Joachim Peiper to determine his whereabouts. The Life and Wars of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper" by Danny S. Parker (Da Capo, 2014): "Indeed, the Captain's third son, Joachim, was born at 3:30 a.m. on January 30, 1915. . Wife of Warren Eastwood. He said he was innocent of the earlier Boves massacre war crime in Italy. . The troops, mainly elements of the American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion, were quickly overcome and captured. At trial, the court heard Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (Bandenbekmpfung chief for occupied Europe) speak of Himmler's plans to "rid Russia of thirty million Slavic people" and Himmler's pronouncements, at Minsk, that he was "determined to eliminate the Jews". [85] The plan was to advance through Losheimergraben, but the two infantry divisions tasked to open the route for Kampfgruppe Peiper had failed to do so on the first day of battle. German wounded and American prisoners were also left behind. The result is a highly readable and scholarly account with the first complete picture of Joachim Peiper. "History is always written by the victor."-Joachim Peiper. American attacks on Stoumont forced the remnants of the battle group to retreat to La Gleize. . [107] When asked about having ordered his soldiers to summarily murder Belgian civilians, Peiper said that the dead people were partisan guerrillas not civilians. In post-war interrogations by U.S. Army JAG and military intelligence interrogators, Peiper was factual and emotionally detached in describing his eye-witness experience of mass murder: The [gassing] action was done before a circle of invited guests. In 1956, the judicial authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany opened a war-crime case to investigate the accusation that Peiper deliberately killed some of his own Waffen-SS soldiers as a point of unit discipline. Joachim had 2 brothers: Hasso Peiper and one other sibling. Here are ten facts about Peiper that offer insight into the man, the SS legend, and the war criminal. He spent the first two years of the war as an adjutant to the Reichsfhrer of the Schutzstaffel, and leading member of the Nazi Party, Heinrich Himmler, where he would have witnessed at first hand the construction and implementation of numerous SS policies . [3] In the Weimar Germany of the 1920s, the antisemitic canards of Nazi ideology the Stab-in-the-back myth, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The International Jew, et cetera had much appeal to the political conservatives and to the political reactionaries such as the Freikorps mercenary soldier Waldemar Peiper who were angry that Imperial Germany had lost the Great War. The couple lived in Berlin until the first allied air raids on Berlin, when Sigi was sent to Rottach, Upper Bavaria, near Himmler's second residence. In 1966, Peiper claimed he knew nothing of it, and the lack of contradictory evidence and witnesses closed the case. . [23] Despite his biography and working pseudonymously, they lived under his true, German name, Joachim Peiper, and soon attracted the notice of anti-fascists. As a result, I have decided to cable President Truman and ask him if he is familiar with this idiocy. Fascist Italy ceased being a belligerent power of the RomeBerlin Axis on 3 September 1943 with the signing of the Armistice of Cassibile between the Kingdom of Italy and the Allied Powers. [23], In 1974, a member of the French Resistance recognised Peiper and reported his presence in metropolitan France to the French Communist Party. Family (3) . Answer (1 of 19): Because he wasn't guilty of Malmedy, not in any provable way at least, and the whole trial was an epic, absolute mess. Despite having been a minor combat leader, Peiper's idolization by aficionados of the Second World War who romanticise the Waffen-SS in popular culture developed a cult of personality that views Peiper as a war hero of Germany. [64], In August 1943, Kampfgruppe Peiper was stationed at the city of Cuneo, six kilometres north of the village of Boves, in the commune of Boves. Joachim Peiper ( 1915 - 1976 ) more often known as "Jochen Peiper" from the common German nickname for Joachim; born in Berlin on January 30 , 1915 , was a senior Waffen-SS officer and commander in the . Noted for his fighting spirit and aggressive leadership in battle, tank commander Peiper's victories came at the cost of many German tanks and casualties among Waffen-SS infantry. Joachim Peiper Biography. Joachim Peiper was born on January 30, 1915, in Berlin, German Empire. 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. [30], In May 1940, Himmler and Peiper followed the Waffen-SS throughout the Battle of France. . Peiper, Joachim, born 30-01-1915 in Berlin, Gauleiter of Berlin was Josef Goebbels (did you know), more often known as "Jochen Peiper" from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a senior Waffen-SS officer and commander in the Panzer campaigns of 1939-1945. [48] In May 1942, the LSSAH was sent to Vichy France for rest, recuperation, and refitting,[49] and were subsequently reorganized into a Panzergrenadier division. An owner of the car company, Ferry Porsche, personally intervened to promote Peiper into a management job, but the trade unions legally refused to work with Peiper; despite the friendship with Porsche, and because of lost sales of cars in the U.S. for employing a Nazi war criminal the Porsche automobile company dismissed Peiper from his employment.[122]. To facilitate the depopulation of the lands of Russia, SS-General Sepp Dietrich, commander of the LSSAH, volunteered his Waffen-SS infantry to assist the Einsatzgruppe in the massacre of 1,800 people at the Gully of Petrushino. The SS and Police Leader Wilhelm Rediess and the SS official Otto Rasch strove to develop quicker methods for killing civilians in order to depopulate Poland for German colonisation. After this, the armoured units of Kampfgruppe Peiper assumed strategic control of the streets and the roads into and out of the village of Boves, and Peiper then threatened to destroy the village if the partisans did not release their Waffen-SS prisoners.[67]. [23], On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland launched the Second World War in Europe. Joachim Peiper Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family . [104], In Upper Bavaria, at the U.S. military jail in Freising, the judicial and military intelligence interrogators soon learned that, although Peiper and his Waffen-SS troops were hardened soldiers, they had not been trained to withstand interrogation as prisoners of war. Peiper fought in the Third Battle of Kharkov and in the Battle of the Bulge, from which battles his eponymous battle group Kampfgruppe Peiper became notorious for committing war crimes against civilians and PoWs. [19], In 1938, Peiper met and courted Sigurd Hinrichsen, a secretary who was a friend of Lina Heydrich (wife of Reinhard Heydrich) and a friend of Hedwig Potthast, secretary and mistress to Himmler. Guest. Joachim Peiper held the rank of Obersturmbannfhrer in Nazi Germany's fanatical Schutzstaffel, more commonly referred to as the SS. [71], Peiper's over-aggressive style of leadership caused him to disregard tactical common sense in deploying the tanks and infantry forces of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment in battle against the Red Army. Peiper, who had three children with his wife Sigurd (Sigi) Hinrichsen, was convicted of war crimes committed in Belgium and imprisoned for almost 12 years. [124], In the early 1960s, Cold War geopolitics in western Europe required transforming Germany from enemy (Nazi Germany) to ally (Federal Republic of Germany) for consequent integration into NATO. Joachim Peiper was born on January 30, 1915 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany. In 1951, about politicking for the political rehabilitation of Waffen-SS Colonel Joachim Peiper, ex-general Heinz Guderian said to a correspondent: At the moment, I'm negotiating with General Handy [in Heidelberg], because [he] wants to hang the unfortunate Peiper. [113] In March 1948, Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the U.S. military governor of Occupied Germany, reviewed 43 death sentences, and confirmed the legality of only 12 death sentences, including the death sentence of Waffen-SS Col. [131] Moreover, the Facebook page of the Army's 10th Mountain Division also featured Peiper's colourised Waffen-SS military photograph to represent the German enemy they fought in the Second World War.[131][132][133]. He contracted malaria, which demobilised him from active duty in German Africa. The battle group paused for the night, allowing the Americans to reorganize. [45] Peiper rejoined the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) whilst they fought in the Eastern Front, in the vicinity of the Black Sea. he had two brothers . Who leaves him now , be damned forever. PoorOldSpike. Joachim Peiper (30 Januarie 1915 - 14 Julie 1976), ook bekend as Jochen Peiper, was 'n Duitse SS-leier en oorlogsmisdadiger wat verantwoordelik was vir die slagting in Malmedy in 1944 teen Amerikaanse krygsgevangenes. The first 200 pages covers his SS recruitment, close work with Himmler, and wartime service, the second half covers his post-war trials, incarceration and eventual release. It was reported that he and his wife left France and moved to the German Federal Republic due to ongoing death threats. Peiper returned the admiration and by 1939, Peiper always was the adjutant of the Reichsfhrer-SS at every official function. Peiper's defence attorney said that Italian Communists had fabricated evidence to substantiate false Nazi war-crime accusations; Peiper again repeated that Battle Group Peiper had to destroy the village of Boves in the course of the Waffen-SS defence against Communist partisans. Two others belonged to his wife, Sigurd Peiper, a . The Career of Waffen-SS Standartenfhrer Joachim Peiper. [13] As an SS leadership-student Peiper received favourable and approving reviews from the SS instructors, yet received only conditional approval from the military psychologists, who noted Peiper's egocentricity, negative attitude, and continual attempts to impress them with his personal connection to Reichsfhrer-SS Himmler. Max Wnsche was born on 20 April 1914 in Kittlitz.In July 1933 Wnsche joined the SS.In 1935, he graduated from SS-Junkerschule at Bad Tlz and was . His wife was one of Heinrich Himmler's secretaries. I am proud of you! 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