JOACHIM PEIPER: A NEW BIOGRAPHY OF HIMMLER'S SS COMMANDER

In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Westemeier portrays the rise and fall of Joachim "Jochen" Peiper, and demolishes persistent myths of a Nazi icon. The picture revealed here is at odds with the popular Peiper mythology created by wartime and contemporary National Socialist propaganda, novels, motion pictures and right-wing Peiper biographies. Using primary sources and personal interviews, a compelling image of the SS colonel emerges. The result is a highly readable and scholarly account with the first complete picture of Peiper. Now, a previously little understood Waffen-SS icon comes to life in a book that is at once an important contribution fro our understanding of World War II history, as well as the place of the Waffen-SS in the Third Reich.