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Joachim Peiper
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“I was a Nazi and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe.”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with a French writer Peiper spoke with in 1967, quoted in The Devil's Adjutant by Michael Reynolds, page 260.
“It's so long ago now. Even I don't know the truth. If I had ever known it, I have long forgotten it. All I know is that I took the blame as a good CO should have been and was punished accordingly.”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I admit willingly that after the Normandy battles, my unit was composed of young fanatic soldiers. Many of them had lost their parents, or brothers and sisters in the bombardments. Some had seen for themselves at Cologne where thousands of bodies were crushed after the terrorist raids. Their hatred of the enemy was such that I admit that I could not always control them. At Malmédy, there were, no doubt, some excesses.”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My boys may charge me with all they want. The main thing is, it helps them. They are not evil and no criminals. They are the products of total war, grown up on the streets of scattered towns without any education! The only thing [they] knew was to handle weapons for the Dream of [the] Reich. They were young people with a hot heart and the desire to win or to die, according to the word: right or wrong—my country!”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.
“When seeing today the defendants on the dock, don’t believe them to be the old Combat Group Peiper. All my old friends and comrades have gone before! These people who plead for mitigating circumstances are only the negative selection! The real outfit is waiting for me in Valhalla!”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) first seen 1946 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Willis Everett, July 14, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 32.
“History is always written by the victor and histories of the vanquished belong to a shrinking circle of those who were there.”
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 19, citing Peiper to Karl Wortmann, November 28, 1974 in note 27.