Brutal Massacre of German Waffen SS Soldiers by their Americans Captors - Chenogne Massacre - WW2
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- On 17 December 1944, the 1st SS Panzer Division, commanded by Joachim Peiper, was heading west from Büllingen, Belgium. This movement was part of the general German advance during the Battle of the Bulge. At the same time, a US convoy of thirty vehicles and nearly 140 men of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion was heading south from Hürtgen Forest toward Ligneuville. The two forces converged just before noon at the crossroads hamlet of Baugnez, 4 kilometers south of Malmedy. SS soldiers immediately began firing upon the US troops, who panicked. Those who did not escape, including medical personnel, quickly surrendered. After being searched and relieved of their personal possessions, the US soldiers were lined up in eight rows in a field at the crossroads. Survivors of the atrocity recalled that a group of approximately 120 U.S. prisoners of war stood in the farmer's field when the SS soldiers fired machine guns at the grouped Americans.
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The 12th SS did the same to 156 Canadian soldiers in several areas of France. When word got out the Canadians took no more prisoners again.
i've read about this massacre on These Canadian soldiers ,one SS officer was reported to be laughing as they sent the Canadian body's floating down the river!
Back when Canada still had men.
Neither did the Waffen SS for that matter.
The 12th Panzer Division was the Hitler Youth Division. That makes it all the more horrific that young boys would do this type of thing.
@@jimmycapps7263 The Canadians were notorious for killing German POW, partically Waffen - SS soldiers. Reactions could be expected. Killing POWs is ALWAYS a war crime, doesn't who committed those.
The saddest thing is the world is slowing getting closer to another Radical Regime not further away.. despite history's lessons.
So, having paedophiles in power who just ‘vaxxxxxxed’ the western world isn’t a radical regime!?
which one ?
@@chrisBaxter-ly8orThe one taking over college campuses with acts of violence while supporting terrorists and at the same time denying that their side raped, beheaded or kidnapped anyone
I can only imagine you are speaking of the Biden Administration with their willing fellow travelers...the RINOs.
Trump wants to be like Hitler. History will not be kind..
Joachim Peiper was sentenced to death but excaped the rope with a reduced sentence. He later worked for Volkeswagen. He was assinated in France in 1976.
Joachim Peiper was a German Soldier, obeying orders from his Superiors. If he had chosen to disobey those orders, he would have been shot by his own military. Allied Troops did the exact same thing. A few were even executed for Desertion. Very sad.
@@MrShenyang1234No, he was SS. You don't just get drafted into SS, you undergo extensive training, filtering of too unfit/not tough enough people, and multiple tests to see if you'd faithfully carry out orders. You literally have to prove over and over that you're Super into being a Nazi, so they don't risk desertion.
Wehrmacht is what you're talking about, but the myth of "clean Wehrmacht" only circulated once their superiors were captured... Hmm... 😂
@@tasteofyourmedicineYes. That is the difference.
@@tasteofyourmedicine By war's end the majority of the SS wasn't even German.
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I shed tears for all civilians, Holocaust victims, Allied soldiers & even the animals from WWII. I feel zero sympathy for Nazi’s. Americans weren’t perfect but tell me who involved was? As the stellar World History narrator said: “there were no tears for Nazi murderers”.
Same
How are you still so clueless and asleep?
@@HedgeWalker What pearls of wisdom do you wish to share?
@@KohalaLovernone
@@HedgeWalker Never heard back from you. Are you a troll?
This is an event I never knew about. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you
My Grandpa (7th Armored Div) said they took NO SS prisoners during St. Vith (Battle of the Bulge).
My father was 30th Division which moved into a line between Stavelot and Malmedy on the day after the massacre, trapping the 1st SS armor in a pocket with the Ambleve river at their back. They soon knew about the massacre and stopped taking SS prisoners as they reduced the 1st SS, but I came across an interesting entry in the 30th Medical Department Diary a couple of weeks later. As they pushed the Germans back towards St. Vith a Sgt. Rice makes an entry in the journal that Wehrmacht prisoners are showing up in the rear with frost bitten feet because the GIs are taking their boots away before marching them to the rear. He says they are doing this to "make them sorry they are Germans." The massacre at Baugnez crossroads was repaid to German prisoners for the rest of the war. War is hell, as they say.
When your enemy has Black Flag policy, they can't very well complain when they receive no quarter in return.
My uncle said after the SS killed those men at malmedy, if the SS gave any resistance they were killed. He said he used a bayonet and took their medals and Lugers. He was 17th ABD Artillery and was at the Bulge.
Theres plenty of blame for everyone of humanity to go around,ultimately.We need to be reminded of this every so often as your presentation so ablely provides.Great work.
My dad was in Burma and there was a private order given out within the troops NO PRISONERS.
Well the Japanese were a different kettle of fish
Japan fought a different a very different war with no regard to any life. And no surrender!
@@jjbrbbergwell the Germans did the same ...... except for themselves
basically, these troops were "Einsatztruppen".
there is of course a difference between taking no prisoners and killing prisoners
Peiper and his unit carried out similar atrocities in Russia, he must have had something of a death wish, moving to France.
I agree with the American soldiers who believed that it would not be possible to commit a “war crime” against SS or IJA soldiers.
War can drive even decent Men into doing things they would never do in civilian life. Least we judge them until we've walked in their shoes and seen what they have seen.
Quid pro quo. No sympathy at all for the animals in the SS.
Really? Does quid pro quo make you morally right, or does revenge nothing but justify more violence and rancour until the end of time?
@@simonacinghita7719 I mean the Nazis were comprehensively beaten within a year of this incident and haven't piped up since, so..
@@simonacinghita7719 If my comrades had been murdered by the SS, I would have no qualms in seeking retribution. Despite their many well documented brutal war crimes most escaped any repercussions.
@@BigArnieNumeroUno You mean the SS, of course 🙂SAS was notoriously British!
@@simonacinghita7719 Edited accordingly - no comment re SAS
My Grandfather was part of Pattons 3rd Army in the 2nd Armored Division and He told me how the Americans felt after hearing of the Melmedy Massacre and it wasn’t pretty..
To paraphrase R.E. Lee:
“It is good that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond if it”.
If you truly want to “end all war” - you don’t- then make it as horrible as you possibly can.
Your attempts at making it conform to politeness are misguided.
All you do is to bring about its sooner return.
After watching the Army of the Potomac make repeated frontal assaults against his dug-in forces, taking horrible losses at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
PEIPERS HOME WAS BURNT DOWN WITH HIM IN IT
Are you kidding me? We’re talking about a people that murdered 11 million human beings. I’m suppose to feel sorry, HELL NO! 🇺🇸
27 million Russians ALONE . NOT 11 million .
Do I have sympathy for the SS soldiers, no, there were still many who weren't punished for their crimes that got to live after the war
This title of this video is like saying…. Unbelievable Terrible massacre of KKK members!!!
Pa….Lease! Who cares! The hell with them. Most of them lived long lives in German Austria and Ukraine etc living to old age talking with friends about the “ good old days”.
You're correct No one feels sorry for what the Soviet Jewish controlled Bolsheviks did. Causing the death of millions of Ukrainians and thousands of people from the Baltic countries are horrible deeds.
My Uncle was in Patton's Army he would talk about it whenever asked. He hated the SS. Even more than the regular Soldiers. He said they made every attempt to kill as many SS as possible.
Can anyone answer what the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion's job was? I was in the Field Artillery back in 1971-1973 and we had Forward Observer teams that were sent out attached to Infantry and Armor units but they consisted of usually an officer, a sergeant and an enlisted man as an RTO (Radio Telephone Operator), I went out as an RTO myself a few times when they needed a replacement. That said, why did they need an entire battalion of observers? This has always puzzled me.
They were having a convention and were out for a bit of sightseeing.
They weren't all observers. The battalion would have included maintenance, medical, communications, cooks, security etc. They were designed to be as self sufficient as possible. Remember that old adage. For every one guy on the line, there are 10 behind it supporting him one way or another.
Atrocities were commited on all sides. War brings out the worst in some people.
War is hell. Is not to be taken on lightly
What goes around comes around...
His neighbours were SS also they killed his dog his son is a lawyer in the America he has all his medals you people know nothing .
Murder of unarmed surrendered pow’s is still murder. Period
@@TheGreatCornholio1 what would you like me to tell them, God made an exception to murder? “Vengeance is mine” says the Lord.
My father is a WW2 vet. He stated that all SS had tattoos identifying them as SS on their arm. They would search every German soldier looking for the tattoo. Some SS would try to burn the tattoo from their arm, which automatically gave them away. The SS were given a special kind of treatment. Not the kind anyone would want.
What were those rows of ring like looking things on the front of some of the Panzers?
In the early '80's I was working in Germany and had a German girlfriend. One weekend, her father came to visit us. I casually mentioned that I was recently in Washington State to visit my sister. My girlfriend's father then stated that he too had been to Washington State. I asked, "Oh, were you on vacation?" His face immediately turned bright red, and he slammed his fist on the table while screaming - "No! I was a prisoner of war!" I looked at my girlfriend standing behind him and she signaled for me to drop the subject. I did ask what he did as a POW, and he said that he picked apples. I was very tempted to say, "Well pal, that was a whole lot better than working in a dank coal mine in Siberia as a Russian POW, wasn't it?", but I kept my mouth shut. There was no doubt in my mind that he was STILL a Nazi, and probably served in the SS. I wondered about how many Americans that he had killed, before he was captured. I thank God that he didn't become my father-in-law.
Third Utah wife ,
You should have said HITLER IS KAPUT!!!!
@@454FatJack Mormonism before 1978 where racist i wonder why.? find the truth and you will find the answer.
Imagine his relief you weren't his son in law. Ever wonder just why the Germans fought so hard for us? Take a good look around at the ongoing shit show for your answer.
Black people were treated like garbage in America long before the civil rights movements began. You should get that big fat head out of the sand.
The Mormon church allowed slavery into that Mormon territory in 1852.
So glad i am NOT American.
Not the ideal response, perhaps, but understandable at that moment, and undoubtedly 99% of these Waffen SS murdered unarmed enemy soldiers, partisans & civilians on both fronts at some point. And we see how ineffective the war crimes "trials" ended up being. The nazi Peiper of all people was released after 12 years and had to be finally dealt with extra-judiciously with a very fitting and unpleasant ending because military lawyers & judges were too stupid to do it properly straight away. So, as the narrator frequently opines..."no tears shed."
The americans are no better than nazis they massacred native Americans the murdered and segregated blacks the waged war in the east for oil money then there's Vietnam
Peiper wasn't even at the Malmedy Massacre. The SS troops involved were not part of Peiper's Kampfgruppe which had already advanced 8 miles farther down the road.
Other accounts indicate otherwise. He may well not have been personally there, but his men were so he's in the soup with them. His trial indicated his guilt. Then there's the 99% rule for the SS. 99.9% for the Allgemeine SS. Nobody jumped in at the trials or well after saying, "It was me, and my SS verbande, not Joachim!"
As for the element of the 11th US Armor? A travesty they did not face accountability as well. People unjustly escape accountability for massacres temporally all the time. Ultimately, they do not. Every move, every thought, every utterance is recorded for the final review.
@frankbaine3918 His trial was a shame. The troops that shot these prisoners were from the 1st SS Reconnaissance Battalion, which were not part of his command. None of his troops were even still at the crossroads, they were 8 miles further down the road. This was known and confirmed before his trial even started. I am not saying he was a Saint, far from the truth. However, he was not responsible in any way for the Malmedy Massacre.
@@frankbaine3918 The officer in command had been killed and therefore couldn't come to Peiper's defense even if they would. A U.S. Army officer did testify that he and his troops were treated well while with Peiper's command, Major Hal McCown.
Isn t any massacre brutal? When anything is titled brutal massacre I just doubt the education of the writer
Isn't that a war crime?
I remember seeing a documentary about Joachim Piper and stated he was liviing in France on mainstream in 1975; in died in 1976 under suspicious circumstances
Bummer.....
in war sometimes its an eye for an eye in matters like this.
Young men killing young men they don’t know on behalf of old men who do know each other.
This is the closest we will ever get to a time machine these old films
Way before '45 SS were almost never taken alive or allowed to surrender alive, fair enough
War criminal just like US
The treachery and deceit,
9AD Teutoburg forest.
A date of infamy…
Nazi soldier: I'm fighting for my homeland! American soldier: If it weren't for you, I'D BE HOME.
Oh gosh, the Allies were so mean to those poor Nazis.
So many have lost their sense of irony... 👍
Are you serious?
... what a shame for earlier breed of humans on this planet to do such acts ...
you should have no pity for SS troops
Wasn't there a saying In the Waffen SS "The Joy Of Killing" ?
Ok am i suppose to feel bad about SS.
The sad part is that Americans treated German prisoners like kings while black soldiers were treated like dogs. German prisoners had full rights and were able to enter theaters, bathrooms, hospitals...... Black American soldiers who fought in WW2 were denied all rights and banished from theaters, bathrooms, hospitals..... Even German soldiers criticized such discrimination.
Because the Constitution was written by Caucasians, for Caucasians. All other races are inferior. Sounds familiar ?
That's a different discussion for another video, but agreed!
Woodrow Wilson re-segregated Federal Employees. Harry Truman de-segregated the military in 1948. It was dumb to lose all of that talent. Gotta give black Americans credit for serving their country though. Most of them did it gladly. They believed in the US in spite of the progress yet to be made.
Bingo! Just like Americans treated japs humanely then chinese. Smh
Blame the cause: Democrats.
It would have taken a brave soldier not to return evil for evil but I can't pass judgment on those who did either because maybe their friends were on the receiving end at some point. War is horrible.
It's spelled K-A-R-M-A.
No it is called hypocrisy
@@DT-wp4hk No, it's called "Payback"
@@ladycplum 'pay' back. Always about money. It is even embedded in the language🤣
This sounds like it’s narrated by The secret millionaire.
OK, first, the "witness" never saw it happen. Second, Ike sent the 11th Armored CO home as soon as he heard about it since it was the CO who apparently gave the order, so, clearly, somebody did pay.
"Good nazi ,is a dead nazi"(Inglorius Bastars)
Are you still back in the 1940s funny man..
GREAT movie! 👍👍
Soo what!!!?? Are we supposed to have sympathy for them? 🤬
First of all we need to know. Emotional reaction is individual.
Oh... Those people didnt Had anything to do with crimes. Those were young boys mostly.
It's about knowledge, not sympathy.
@@Disco-Mike Who do you thinK gunned down our guys at Malmedy? Who dropped the Zyklon-B at Auschwitz?
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Have no sympathy for the SS.
No sympathy for you.
Tere sympathy de need kis nu ha
Ask Native indian’s their love US Cavalry 😂
@@454FatJack I am Indian Punjabi
@@Karl-nv5okAHH a Romanian fascist no doubt
It’s funny, comparing the actions of the “Blowtorch” Battalion or 2nd SS PzDiv to any allied formation. Talk about a false equivalence.
Just war I assume, strange how U.S. film makers don't show their soldiers commiting acts like this(!?) Apart from a mention to a similar event in 'Band of Brothers'
"That men do not learn from History is the most important of all lessons that History has to teach." Aldous Huxley. It will all happen again -- different place, different time, same human nature.
Yes..I have heard that the ss was so hated..some where shot on site.👀
And?
This goes to show war is a vicious and sicking endeavor on both sides. Many people were killed just for being at wrong place and wrong time. To much anger and hatred on both sides. There is no sympathy for the nazi ss troops. It just crazy that neighbors can not get along because of race,religion, political views. That is the most sickest part.
The Bulge or Ardennes offensive in Dec 1944 is the last major offensive of Hitler's Germany anywhere, not only on the western front.
When I joined the 82nd Airborne Division my 1st sergeant told me “war is hell ,but battle is a mother…” he was right .
Funny thing is no one from us UK or french end up on the war crimes court......
History is written by the winners...
So ????
And how many instituted death camp that killed millions of people , ifiot
So? We won. Tell us you approve of the camps and the ovens without telling us.
Because none of the three that you mentioned committed genocide.
TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE IT RIGHT....
No one is saying that. We are just saying that we don’t grieve for the SS.
Regardless, of which side willingly shot Prisoners of War, it was wrong to do so. Although, one might think differently had they been present and witnessed the Executions of their Comrades. Hindsight is only reserved for those who manage to survive. War is Hell.
The SS shot British troops in 1940. You will find all SS were routinely shot, not a lot survived, and why should they have. Das Reich murder spree moving from southern France towards Normandy was rather brutal.
Here’s a clue for those who don’t know, war is an ugly business. Shit happens, don’t expect it to change.
The first casualty of war is truth ….both sides thought they were the good guys ….both sides had brave and honourable soldiers
And both sides had their villains…god bless them all
Ethnic Germans have always been easily brainwashed, with a higher degree of psychopaths than in other nations.
OMG! Buddy, you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@jeffrey7938Only your opinion , which goes in 1 ear out the other.
Oh, puhlease! The Nazis absolutely knew they were the bad guys. They even dressed like cartoon villains. All they needed to do was look at the death head prominently displayed on their clothing.
@@BeannieReyBut don't be silly, think about what we did in Vietnam!We don't even know the exact number of how many civilian and military people we killed, and for what?What had they ever done to us?
Watch the Movie Fury and the tankers feelings about the SS!
What would they know? Fury is fake Hollywood shite. Sherman would have been full of holes like Swiss cheese.
B/s of Hollywood.
If you lived under German rule and japanese rule, you wouldn't be so merciful so sweet to them,,,, you would singing a very different song,,,
History is written by the victors. We know who the true monsters were.
Kon right c kon galt eh rabb jane par marr de lok he ne ik bol da oh galt c ta kita eh kuch nale Birtsh nu pata be kise nu badnam kis tara karna fake history bna ke india vich be kafi kuch kita ehna ne
One of my great uncle’s was working in a prisoner of war camp in Australia with Japanese prisoners and someone told them that the war was over and they were free to go
The war wasn’t over and as soon as they walked out they were shot
93 were killed
The Cowra Breakout as it is called was hastily planned. On August 4 1944, Sergeant Major Kanazawa called a meeting of 20 hut leaders, because the Aussies were going to transfer junior ranks to another camp. On August 5, at 2.00 am, about 1,000 Japanese stormed the perimeter fence. 234 Japanese died. 4 Aussie guards were killed. Many Japanese who actually got out committed suicide by jumping in front of trains or hanging themselves. There is a beautiful Japanese cemetery at Cowra maintained by both Japanese & Aussie governments. War is SO pointless, is it not?...
I believe when the Japanese prisoners was trying to warn the Australians what was going to happen but wasn't able to in time. One of the guards knowing they were going to be over ran took out the firing pin out of the machine gun and hit it so the Japanese couldn't use it.
FU!
That hatred still exists today in our own back yards waiting to show there true colors.
Well no matter how ppl personal feelings are, you cant call the other side war criminals and when your side does it, its retribution. Either both are warcrimes and or non is. You cant cherry pick on the subject.
crime what crime?
Los Alemanes sólo fusilaban a Guerrilleros o Miembros de la Resistencia que eran capturados con las armas en mano...
No asesinaban a combatientes uniformados...
Nope. Ridiculous AI voice is too ridiculous to spend any of my time on.
Sad, but we have a modern day SS forming right here in America on college campuses. Be vigilant and remember history.
You can't be serious...
I'm pretty sure those are Marxists not Nationalist..
Yeah. The Marxists are in colleges. The Nazis are in Congress.
Red Guards. Mass psychosis.
@@shekelberggoldstein1387
Biggest lies being taught on Amercan college campus.
That Marxism/socialism creates a society of equals devoid greed and corruption, a " workers paradise " when in fact it creates slaves.
It always amuses me how Nazis initially committed all the atrocities but play victim when it happens to them 😂😂😂
The eternal victim = 🔯
Very similar to Israel today, I expect to get banned any second
Ist SS Panzer Divison LSSAH was commanded by Theodor Wisch (D-Day) & then Wilhelm Mohnke (battle of the bulge).
We can now look back and want to criticize the American soldiers? Folks fail to understand that soldiers are HUMANS who will gladly die just so their comrades will live. To hear your brothers in arms will killed despite have surrendered, you will be a coward to not want to avenge your brother (if the tables were turned, those brothers of yours who were killed will avenge you and you know it!) Even if senior commanders had attempted to stop a revenge, it would have been v bad and such would have failed. I am not saying the actions of these soldiers were right or excusable, rather I am saying ALL PARTIES MUST adhere to the rules of war cos failure of doing this will have grave repercussions on you too. See ALL the lives lost and destructions of WW2 could have been avoided if Hitler and his cohorts were never entertained by the great people of Germany. I am not saying the German folks are to blame, certainly not! Hitler is to be blamed!! However, the Great Germans should have taken care of business inhouse. Well, the beloved who died in WW2 will hope and pray that me and you will learn and live life more peacefully, we are better together, brothers and sisters, beautiful human race
Well the first half describes the brutal execution of US troops which makes war to be brutal for all .
This trial is exactly why the SS should never have been taken in alive.
Who gives A F? .. It was war, can you really blame either side?.. Not hardly.
During the battle of arden Forrest the so called battle of the bulge many us soldiers massacred by ss troops of nazi germany it was winter month of December the nazi got a dose of thier own medicine
Like wise when the Red Army entered Berlin they also got revence for what the nazi soldiers did to Russian women and civilians when they exicuted operation barbarosa
The SS troops were brutal and many muderers, do not view thw allied troops killing them as a bad thing because we were not there and have no right to do so.
No tears for Nazis
Please cover the US run POW camps on the Rhine River after the wars end in 1945. Where America genocided over 1million German POWs after the wars end. The Rhine River Death Camps
It is in the book "Other losses."
Were’s the background music?
Well ... obviously an error during the export of the video ... sorry for that
@@WorldHistoryVideos that’s fine with me I don’t like background music playing in videos, it’s distracting when watching the video.
@@WorldHistoryVideosplease tell us the background music
@@briandenison2325 Brian, thanks for letting us know. From now on we will have music in our videos again (sorry for that). Please, always tell us when you see something strange :)
Shit happens...
Brutal?....Americans didn't imprison millions of innocent people and slaughter them...Americans came together to stop the brutality. What an ignorant observation by this channel.
Advancing troops in major battles were given orders to not slow down for rounding up prisoners. These orders were issued to US paratroopers on DDay and Peiper’s troops. Both killed POWs but only the Germans were tried for war crimes. More civilians were killed by US bombers at Stavelot and Caen than by SS troops. War is hell.
No sympathy for SS.
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Nazis bad - Commies good - duh...
Yeah and the Dumbo's don't know Nazi's and commo' s are virtually the same . National Socialist = Nazi while the Commos were international. Massacre of unarmed prisoners only leads men to fight longer and harder even in hopeless situations situations.
The victors write history ... still after 80 years. Everything the Western Allied did has being excused ...
The angko union were the bad guys in ww2 Europe, of course they committed war crimes daily.
War is war.
Revenge was meted out, so why all the constant whining years and years later. Evil begets Evil