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The Best Way to Move in the USA - Canada We usually do this almost the same way in Europa. We pack everything, assemble all the material to be moved in the garage then call for transport (mostly one rental trucks). Then, like a circus convoy,...

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Marty & Cindy : Unpublished Photos 1945 Hello Gunter, these photos were taken by Lawton Clark who is a good friend of my Dad Kenny Cavanah. They were taken at the end of the war and from the smiles on most of their faces you can see that they...

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Marty & Cindy : 17th A/B Unpublished Photos 1945 Message #01 : Some of the photos I sent yesterday failed to be delivered. I will try again. Have a good day. Operation Varsity taken by Joe Summers of the 17th Airborne. Marty Cavanah Message #02 :...

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Cindy & Marty : 17th Abn Unpublished Photos 1945 Well I don't know what to say. Of course a great great thanks for the Worldwide Historian's Community as these photos were never published before and these are really interesting photos. Photos at about...

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The Nuremberg Trial (Preface)

Category : Nuremberg Trial, War Trials Related

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
Preface

Harry-trumanOn the 2nd day of May 1945, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9547 appointing Justice Robert H. Jackson as Representative of the United States and as its Chief of Counsel in the preparation and prosecution of the case against the Major Axis War Criminals. Since that date and up to the present, the staff of the Office of Chief of Counsel-(OCC), has been engaged continuously in the discovery, collection, examination, translation, and marshaling of documentary evidence demonstrating the criminality of the former leaders of the German Reich. Since the 20th day of November 1945, a considerable part of this documentary arsenal has been directed against the 22 Major Nazi War Criminals who are on trial before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. As of this writing the American and British cases-in-chief, on Counts I and II of the Indictment charging, respectively, conspiracy and the waging of wars of aggression, have been completed.
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Peter Chemy, Arrested, Convinced, Sentenced, Executed

Category : Peter Chemy, War Trials Related

Peter Chemy, a Polish national liberated from a concentration camp by Americans in May 1945, spent the first few months of his freedom adrift in Germany. On a snowy winter night of that year, he found refuge and a meal in the home of a German family : husband, wife, and daughter. After they had gone to sleep, Chemy found a hatchet and murdered them in their beds. He was tried by an American tribunal, sent to Landsberg, and executed by firing squad in January 1947.
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Joachim Peiper 1. SS-LSSAH – Investigations

Category : War Politic Papers, War Trials Related

THE MALMEDY MASSACRE INVESTIGATION

The following report was presented to the Committee on Armed Services by the subcommittee chairman, Senator Raymond E. Baldwin, at the committee meeting on Oct 13. The report was unanimously approved by the committee and Senator Baldwin thereupon presented it to the Senate on Oct 14, 1949.
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Waffen SS Bloddy Trip Belgium

Category : War Trials Related

legaye1aAtrocities Locations & Units
The following is the order of battle per specific crime location, omitting atrocity generalization, such as convictions of ranking commanders for overall responsibility. Peiper is also excluded, inasmuch as another section of this study deals with him. Note that if someone could help me to hang names to the number I could have the list complete and continue researches.
December 17 1944 – Honsfeld

- 2.SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment
- 3.SS Panzer Grenadier Battalion
- 12.SS Panzer Grenadier Company, 2.Platton, (Plat CO) – #38
- 1.SS Panzer Pionier Battalion
- 2.SS Panzer Pionier Company, 2.Platoon (Driver) #18
- 1.SS Panzer Pionier Battalion
- 3.SS Panzer Pionier Company, 2.Platoon, (Messenger) #28
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SS KG Peiper & LSSAH

Category : War Trials Related

joachim-peiper-01Joachim Peiper (SS #132) was born in Berlin, Germany, on Jan 30, 1915. His father, Waldemar Peiper, was a career Army officer in German’s Imperial Army who fought in East Africa during World War I. He married, in 1909, Charlotte Marie Schwartz from Berlin. Joachim Peiper had two brothers, Hans-Hasso and Horst (both in the SS, one drowned with the Bismark while the other was ’suicided’ in Poland for obscure reasons.
Peiper was just 18 when, in 1933, he decided to join his brother Horst in the Hitlerjugend. In order to learn riding, he first enlisted in the 7. SS Reiterstandarte, on Oct 12.
In 1934 he caught the attention of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler who convinced him to enlist with the SS Verfügungstruppe. In 1935, Peiper attended the SS officer’s training school (Junkerschule) in Braunschweig and was commissioned the following year.
On Apr 1, 1936, he was transferred to the Leibstandarte, where he was later appointed adjutant to Himmler. He held this position until Aug 1941. During this period, he temporarily left his duties and actively took part in the Battle of France.
In August 1941, he returned to the front lines and commanded various infantry and panzer units within the Leibstandarte, by now expanded to a full division.
While on Himmler’s staff, Peiper also met and married his wife, Sigurd ‘Sigi’ Hinrichsen, (she war working in Himmler’ General Staff) with whom he had three children : Hinrich, Elke, and Silke. Himmler was particularly fond of Peiper and took a keen interest in his ascension towards command. By age 29, Peiper was a full colonel of the Waffen-SS, well respected and a holder of one of wartime Germany’s highest decorations, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords, personally awarded to him by Adolf Hitler.
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