Standartenführer Joachim Peiper the SS-Viper

Before his murder in Traves, France in 1976, Peiper described how his unit's tactics in rapidly attacking Russian villages was distorted after the war:[50]
" For a long time I commanded III Battalion, Panzergrenadier Regiment 2 of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. This unit made quite a name for itself for its night attacks in Russia and was known in divisional and corps areas as the "Blowtorch Battalion".

Our troops used this highly practical tool in the winter to pre-heat the engines in our vehicles, to heat water quickly for cooking and many other things. There was also a saying among the soldiers in those days when they were given a task: 'we will soon torch that.' The vehicles even used a blowtorch as their tactical symbol.

During post-war interrogations, however, this name was twisted from the "Blowtorch Battalion" to the "Arson Battalion". It was suggested that the blowtorches were used to burn down houses. In action our armoured personnel carriers were in the habit of going into the attack at full speed with guns blazing. As the Russian houses mostly had thatched roofs, it was inevitable that they would catch fire during the battle. It would certainly be unnecessary for troops to dismount from their vehicles and use blowtorches to set houses on fire when they would almost certainly have already been set on fire as a result of the shooting that was going on, but it was one more allegation with which to blacken the image of the Waffen-SS troops.

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[EdelweissRS]

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[ImperialGuard9001]

Joachim Peiper eternal heroic germanic warrior rest in valhalla

[JGeschw300vonKresky]

@immerweiterrolo Genau Kammerad !

[immerweiterrolo]

@JGeschw300vonKresky Er war hard wie Kruppstahl, zäh wie Leder und schnell wie ein Windhund. Wie ein echter SS-kämpfer sein sollte.

[immerweiterrolo]

@SupaMatt007 what has Peiper to do with Auschwitz? He was a panzercommander, so wasn't involved in the KZ matter. Peiper was responsible for the killing of captured american GI's during the battle of the bulge, but not for the jewish victims of the KZ.

[citizenfitz]

Jewish math: 6,000,000 - 1 = 3 to 5 years

[tryckare58]

Some times he went to far but he was the first one to admit it

[SupaMatt007]

You're stupid the SS murdered millions of people. In the woods outside of Auschwitz there used to be a marsh but there isn't anymore because there's 10 feet worth of ashes from cremated bodies there. What about all of the photos the einsatzgruppen took of all the piles of dead jews they took? There's more than enough proof that the holocaust happened

[SupaMatt007]

You're a complete idiot the ss murdered millions of people. In the woods outside of Auschwitz there was once a marsh but now there isn't one because the ashes from human corpses is 10 feet deep. There's more than enough proof that the holocaust occured. What about Germany's official appology about the holocaust. The SS were trained in Dachau how to be ruthless and cruel and how to kill without mercy.

[JGeschw300vonKresky]

Joachim Peiper ist wirklich ein deutscher  Held

[Obamaphiliac]

honestly, peiper wasnt a bad unskilled commander, he was unafraid and driven....but he got to be in that position in the elite 1st only because he was Himmler's "hey jochen get me some coffee" boy for a few yrs before...fast track to the higher level of command