Word: sepp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After war's end, the Germans responsible for the massacre fell into Allied hands. Among them were two SS bigwigs, General Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich, commander of the 6th Armored Division, and Colonel Joachim Peiper of the ist Armored Regiment (known as "Peiper's Task Force"). But most were youngsters whom Dietrich and Peiper had commanded. In 1946, in Dachau, 73 Germans were brought to trial for the Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta...
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...commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph ("Sepp") Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. "He had at most the ability to command a division," said Goring of the general whose blundering cost the Germans some 37,000 men at the Battle of the Bulge. "Dietrich," said Rundstedt simply, "is decent, but stupid." After the war, however, Dietrich found a job where he was really appreciated...
Adolf Hitler's ex-bodyguard, Sepp Dietrich, strove mightily to please when questioned by Allied captors. Choice Dietrich characterizations of the old Hitler Gang...
...Sepp Dietrich, who once commanded Hitler's personal bodyguard and graduated to command of the Sixth Panzer Army, was first reported killed in Vienna. later captured very much alive...