Joachim Peiper: A Biography of Himmler's SS Commander

About this book

In this 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 Hitlers Third Reich.