Joachim Peiper
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Joachim "Jochen" Peiper (1915-1976) was a senior Waffen-SS officer in World War II and a convicted war criminal. By the end of his military career in 1945, Peiper was the youngest regimental colonel in the Waffen-SS, holding the rank of SS-Standartenführer. He also served as personal adjutant to Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, in the period April 1938 to August 1941.
Joachim Peiper in The Man With the Iron Heart
Joachim Peiper was the second-in-command of the German Freedom Front as Germany was occupied by Allied and Soviet forces in the spring of 1945. When Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich was killed attempting to escape his bunker in the Alpine Redoubt in 1947, Peiper became the commander of the GFF, witnessing the evacuation of the final American forces from western Germany later that year. His attempt to force the other Allies' hands using aircraft hijackings had mixed results; the Western Europeans scrambled to make changes to their security procedures and thus were forced to dance to the GFF's tune, while the Soviets simply stormed the parked aircraft at whatever cost to the hostages and their own soldiers.
