Joachim Peiper

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Joachim Peiper A New Biography of Himmler's SS Commander Author:Jens Westemeier Language:English text Format:Hardback Dimensions:8.5" x 11" Pages:288 Publisher:Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. ISBN:9780764326592 In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Weste-meier portrays the rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes persistent myths of a Nazi icon. The picture revealed here is at odds with the popular Peiper mythology created by wartime and contemporary National Socialist propaganda, novels, motion pictures, and right-wing Peiper biographies. Using primary sources and personal interviews, a compelling image of the SS colonel emerges. The result is a highly readable and scholarly account with the first complete picture of Joachim Peiper. Now, a previously little understood Waffen-SS icon comes to life in a book that is at once an important contribution for our understanding of World War II history, as well as the place of the Waffen-SS in Hitler's Third Reich. Show more