At the outset of the Battle of the Bulge, SS commander Joachim Peiper spearheaded Hitler’s final gamble on the Western Front. Backed by King Tigers and hardened Waffen-SS veterans, his column surged ...
Barred from America, rejected by Porsche, and hunted in exile, Peiper’s postwar life unraveled in violence. When exposed in France, he sent his family away and died alone—defending his home in a ...