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The Malmédy Massacre Trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al) was held in May-July 1946 in Dachau to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmédy massacre of December 17, 1944. The highest-ranking defendant was the former SS general, Sepp Dietrich. It attracted great attention because of the nature of the crime and the later disputes about the conduct of the trial. The trial is repeatedly brought up by the German extreme right-wing. Download high resolution version (1024x705, 252 KB)Malmédy massacre - approximately 70 members of Battery B killed after captured . ...
Download high resolution version (1024x705, 252 KB)Malmédy massacre - approximately 70 members of Battery B killed after captured . ...
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Dachau in autumn 2002. ...
Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ...
United States soldiers discover the aftermath of the Malmédy Massacre. ...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop...
General Sepp Dietrich Josef Sepp Dietrich (May 28, 1892–April 21/22, 1966) was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Hitler. ...
Trial The Malmédy Massacre Trial was held before the Dachau International Military Tribunal. The way this tribunal conducted its trials has been criticised, not only by right-wing and neo-nazi groups, but also in the United States. In the case of the Malmédy Massacre Trial the defense was not permitted to dispute if the crime had actually taken place. Guilt was established beforehand, the defendants were required to prove their innocence. Some witnesses were paid to testify, other witnesses were not made available for cross-examination, some of the defendants were tortured. The chief defence lawyer did not speak German, had never defended anyone in a criminal trial before and had never fought in combat. Some of the people involved in the trial, including investigators and translators, had suffered personally from the Nazi regime. General Sepp Dietrich This work is copyrighted. ...
General Sepp Dietrich This work is copyrighted. ...
The Dachau International Military Tribunal was set up after World War II by the Judge Advocate Department of the U.S. Third Army to conduct proceedings against minor war criminals found in the United States sectors of occupation in Germany and Austria, and those accused of committing war crimes against...
In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...
The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ...
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
Verdicts and aftermath On July 16, 1946 the verdict was delivered on 73 members of the Kampfgruppe Peiper. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ...
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
- 43 sentenced to death by hanging
- 22 sentenced to life imprisonment
- 2 sentenced to 20 years imprisonment
- 1 sentenced to 15 years imprisonment
- 5 sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
- the former Colonel Joachim Peiper was sentenced to death.
The sentences were commuted at the behest of a U.S. Senate armed services subcommittee led by Senator Joseph McCarthy. In no case was a death penalty carried out. Joachim Peiper Joachim Peiper (1915 - 1976) more often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim; born on January 30, 1915, was a senior Waffen-SS officer and commander in the Panzer campaigns of 1939-1945. ...
Joseph McCarthy Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician of the Republican Party. ...
See also The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ...
The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by US American troops during World War II, where unarmed German and Italian prisoners of war were massacred at Biscari in 1943, as ordered by George S. Patton. ...
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