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1161:, from 1945 to 1947. The Dachau Trials prosecuted and punished war criminals by imposing 43 death sentences (including Peiper and Dietrich), 22 sentences to life-long imprisonment, and eight sentences to short imprisonment. However, none of the death sentences were carried out, and Peiper and Dietrich were released in 1956 and 1955, respectively.
686:, near the town of Losheim, Belgium. To realize the German advance to the west, SS General Dietrich planned for the 6th SS Panzer Army to advance northwest, through Losheimergraben and Bucholz Station, and then drive 72 miles (116 km) through the towns of Honsfeld and BĂĽllingen, and through the villages of
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gunshot to the head: a wound not sustained in self-defense. The corpses of 20 soldiers showed evidence of small-calibre gunshot wounds to the head, without the residue of a gunpowder burn; other POW corpses had one wound to the head, either in the temple or behind an ear; and 10 corpses showed fatal
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infantry assembled the just-surrendered U.S. POWs in a farmer's field, and added them to another group of U.S. POWs who had been captured earlier that day. The prisoners of war who survived the massacre at
Malmedy said that a group of approximately 120 U.S. POWs stood in the farmer's field when the
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paratroops killed one of the artillery observers and wounded 14 of the other
American soldiers. Upon capturing the American reconnaissance platoon, the paratroops paused their attack out of caution, believing that a greater force of American infantry and tanks was hiding in the woods. For more than
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Division was approximately 16 hours behind schedule when the convoys departed the village of Lanzerath enroute west to the town of Honsfeld. After capturing Honsfeld, Peiper detoured from his assigned route to seize a small fuel depot in
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head injuries, in which blows by a rifle butt fractured the skull. These head wounds were in addition to the bullet wounds made by the machine guns. Most of the POW corpses were recovered from a small area in the farmer’s field, indicating that the
Germans grouped the U.S. POWs to shoot them.
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infantry tasked to capture the villages and towns immediately west of the
International Highway. A destroyed bridge thwarted Peiper's tactical plan; earlier in 1944, the retreating Germans had destroyed the Losheim-Losheimergraben bridge over the railroad, which in mid-December 1944 prevented
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difficult. At the exit to the village of
Thirimont, the armored spearhead was unable to travel the road directly to Ligneuville, and Peiper deviated from the planned route: Rather than turning to the left, the armored spearhead turned to the right, and advanced towards the crossroads of
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infantry summarily executed dozens of U.S. POWs. Afterwards, Peiper advanced to the west, towards the River Meuse and captured
Ligneuville, bypassing the towns of Mödersheid, Schoppen, Ondenval, and Thirimont. The terrain and poor quality of the roads made the advance of
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Germans were surprised that the Ardennes Counteroffensive on the northern front — the frontline "bulge" in the Battle of the Bulge — met much resistance from the U.S. Army; for most of a day, an American reconnaissance platoon of 22 soldiers (18 infantrymen and four
1010:, the crossroads at Baugnez, Belgium, lay behind the Nazi lines until 13 January 1945; and on 14 January, the U.S. Army reached the killing field where the German soldiers had summarily executed 84 U.S. POWs on 17 December 1944. Military investigators photographed the
1666:. U.S. Senate Eighty-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. res. 42, Investigation of action of Army with Respect to Trial of Persons Responsible for the Massacre of American Soldiers, Battle of the Bulge, near Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944. 13 October 1949.
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Moreover, Peiper's alternative route also was thwarted, because the selected railroad overpass bridge could not bear the weight of armored military vehicles. In the event, the German combat engineers were slow to repair the damaged
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convoy of tanks and armored vehicles for almost an entire day, slowing its advance towards the River Meuse and the city of
Antwerp; the delay allowed the U.S. Army time to reinforce against the expected attacks by the
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soldiers had grouped the U.S. POWs in a farmer's field, where they used machine guns to shoot and kill the grouped POWs; many of the prisoners of war who survived the gunfire of the massacre were killed with a
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fired upon and destroyed the first and last vehicles, immobilizing the convoy and halting the
American advance. Out-numbered and out-gunned, those soldiers of the 285th Field Artillery surrendered to the
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were summarily executing U.S. POWs had been communicated to the rank and file soldiers of the U.S. Army in Europe. Unofficial orders spread to not take any SS men prisoner. American soldiers of the
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officer ordered the killing of U.S. POWs at Malmedy. Peiper, who had already left the Baugnez crossroads where the massacre occurred, and the commander of the 1st Panzer Battalion,
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soldiers shot and killed most of the remaining POWs where they stood. Some G.I.s dropped to the ground and pretended to be dead. After machine-gunning the group of POWs, the
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documented the gunshot wounds for the war crimes prosecutions of the enemy officers and soldiers who killed U.S. POWs. Twenty of the 84 corpses of the murdered POWs had
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approached the Baugnez crossroads, two miles southeast of the city of Malmedy, Belgium. Meanwhile, a U.S. Army convoy of thirty vehicles, from B Battery of the
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infantry had breached the U.S. lines, Peiper was to advance his tanks and armored vehicles on the road to Ligneuville and travel through the towns of
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killed fewer U.S. POWs, and put the figure of the dead as being between 300 and 375 US soldiers and 111 civilians executed by the
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was to travel the Lanzerath-Losheimergraben road and advance onto the town of Losheimergraben, immediately following the
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learned of the Malmedy massacre approximately four hours after the fact; by evening time, rumors that the
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The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon
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gunshot to the head. Some of the fleeing POWs ran to and hid in a café at the Baugnez crossroads. The
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of the Losheim-Losheimergraben road, which delay detoured the convoy of tanks and armored vehicles of
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that no quarter was to be granted, no prisoners taken, and no pity shown towards Belgian civilians.
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fired machine guns at them. Panicked by the machine gun fire, some POWs fled, but the
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Mortuary Affairs Operations At Malmedy – Lessons Learned From A Historic Tragedy
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then set the café afire, and killed every U.S. POW who escaped the burning building.
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murdered between 538 and 749 U.S. POWs, other investigations claimed that the
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from traveling that route to their objective — the town of Losheimergraben.
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convoy continued westwards to Ligneuville. At the Baugnez crossroads, the
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onto the road through the town of Lanzerath enroute to Bucholz Station.
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James, Clayton D.; Wells, Anne Sharp (1 February 1995).
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The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy
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through the village of Lanzerath. In that battle, the
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1171:List of massacres in Belgium
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230:crossroads near the city of
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1828:War crimes of the Waffen-SS
1764:, by Major Scott T. Glass.
1729:Gallagher, Richard (1964).
1403:Engels, Émile, ed. (1994).
1315:MacDonald, Charles (1984).
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1137:The war-crime cases of the
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226:on 17 December 1944 at the
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1779:(reprint of an article in
1465:Cavanagh, William (2005).
1082:Joachim Peiper during the
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678:In December 1944, for the
459:German advance to the west
373:, commanded by SS General
78:Malmedy massacre (Belgium)
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860:, in order to join the
734:American counter-attack
662:Route of the Waffen-SS
321:in the soldiers of the
1644:Martin, Roger (1994).
1556:Cole, Hugh M. (1965).
1365:Cole, Hugh M. (1965).
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1843:December 1944 events
1813:Massacres in Belgium
1625:on 27 September 2007
1182:prisoners of war in
598:German counterattack
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170:84 U.S. POWs of the
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1677:Hall, Tony (1994).
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990:on 1 January 1945.
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1200:Normandy massacres
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665:Kampfgruppe Peiper
448:Kampfgruppe Peiper
403:Kampfgruppe Peiper
371:6th SS Panzer Army
303:Geneva Conventions
245:Kampfgruppe Peiper
53:(17 December 1944)
1808:Massacres in 1944
1715:978-1-4617-2094-2
1650:The Peiper Affair
1228: In Cole's
1190:Chenogne massacre
988:Chenogne massacre
970:inspector general
947:Massacre revealed
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