The Malmedy Massacre was treated as a war crime and was part of the Dachau Trials of 1946. American soldiers with the 11th Armored Division exacted revenge for the Malmedy Massacre.

After the war, he and other defendants from Malmedy were tried for war crimes. Peiper was sentenced to death, a sentence which was eventually commuted. He served eleven years in prison.

The above name was given to the cases because they were tried in the former concentration camp against 75 German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy Massacre that involved the execution ...

The Malmedy Massacre was one of the darkest chapters of World War II. I recently traveled to Malmedy to pay my respects to James and his fellow soldiers who fell here on Dec. 17, 1944.

(www.storiesbehindthestars.org) World War II’s ‘Malmedy Massacre’ claimed life of Plymouth native Stories Behind the Stars One of the most heinous war crimes to occur in Europe during World ...