Tribute to convicted S.S. killer
N’ZPA -Reuter Cologne West German u.tra-Right-ists plan to erect a monument to a Nazi war criminal near the former concentration camp at Dachau. Dr Gerhard Frey, head of i the ultra Right-wing German I People’s Lnion, said in : Cologne that his group ‘intended to install the monument to the former S. S. Colonel, Joachim Peiper, soon. Pei per’s home in eastern France was burned down in July, and a charred, bulletridden body found inside was believed to be that of the former Nazi officer. Dr Frey said the Dachau site near Munich had been chosen because it was at that camp that Peiper had been convicted of ordering the execution of 71 American prisoners of war in Belgium during the 1944 Ardennes offensive. The monument would be a 'simple commemorative stone with an iron cross and the inscription: “Joachim Peiper. born 30.1.1915, murdered 14.7.1976,” he said. Peiper was sentenced to death for his war crimes, but this was later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released in 1956 after serving 10 years.
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Press, 14 September 1976, Page 18
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