The French article is somewhat more neutral L'affaire Peiper : Plus qu'un fait divers (This one is not recent by the way 1979) And Italy has always said that the trial in Germany, that releases Peiper had been a mockery, as no italian victims and witnesses had been listened to and would probably asked for extradition. Indeed, he was discovered as the war criminal by the french communiste newspaper "l'humanité" 3 weeks before its "death". The current theory given in 2 recent french books is that Peiper probably fakes his own death in the arson of his house and to avoid to be prosecuted by italian justice. His murder, "probably by french communists" smacks of far right propaganda. He was indeed a translator after the war, true, of nostalgic war nazi witnesses books, one from a "division charlemagne", (the french that enrolled as SS in the nazi army) He has also acknowledged to witnessing "experimentations" in Dachau in the early war on jews and on political prisoners, so was fully aware of what was going on. This guy is responsible for war crimes and has never regretted them, and has been going on nazi activities well after the war. ", "on the other side, some say he is a good guy.", is distorting the truth and confuses the reader in a mitigated opinion. And the version in this text, "on one side he was accused. His taking part in the crimes that occured is proven. I find this article quite biased and quite apologetic, as Peiper was a acknowledged and merciless war criminal (Boves, in Ukraine, Meledy.) and has been going nazi activities long after the war.
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