![]() His remains were interred in the Peiper family plot in Landsberg, Bavaria Nobody was ever caught or admitted responsibility.His body was badly charred and an autopsy found smoke in his lungs, he'd gone down fighting, firing his. The house was firebombed in 1976 with Peiper inside. His mailbox was on the wooden pole on the left and was sometimes ransacked Power lines leading to Peiper's house give away its secluded position in the woods in this 1982 photo. ![]() He was on good terms with his German neighbourīut ominous slogans began appearing on local roads leading to Peiper's property The house was just outside the village of Traves. ![]() Here he sits at the garden table with the journalist He had a small house (below) built in France and moved there in 1972 with his wife, living off his service pension and doing translation work for a publisher. (photos reproduced by kind permission of After the Battle publishing)Īfter serving 11 years in jail from 1945 to 1956, Peiper got a job with Porsche (who had built the Panther) as a sales manager,and later with Volkswagen. Photographed in 1976 aged 61 while giving interview to French journalist just weeks before his death Ironically, although Peipers tactical knowhow had kept him alive through 5 years of combat in France, Italy and Russia, he made one tactical error that cost him his life- he decided to settle in France
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