SS-Kampfgruppe
Peiper 1943-1945
The
military career of Jochen Peiper, one of the most valiant and decorated
officers of the Waffen SS, told through the main battles and campaigns,
which involved the units under his command, especially the armored Kampfgruppen
of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, starting from the fighting on the front
Kharkov, between February and March 1943, passing through the fighting
for the salient of Kursk, the intervention in Italy, the new campaign
on the Ukrainian front between autumn and winter of 1943-44, fighting
on the front of Normandy, the counter-offensive in the Ardennes, until
the last fighting on the Hungarian front and in Austria. The analysis
of the various battles told through the testimonies of the direct protagonists,
the war reports of the period, the original documents, without forgetting
the involvement in some war crimes, all accompanied as always, by an exceptional
iconographic apparatus, maps, documents and images, coming from the military
archives all over the world and from the main private collections, to
make the discussion of the topics even more compelling and realistic.
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