Jens,Westemeier In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Westemeier 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 rightwing 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 WaffenSS 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 WaffenSS in Hitlers Third Reich. 215 x 279, over 160 b/w photos ,240 pp pages, hard cover

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