A monument to a Nazi war criminal near the former concentration camp at Dachau is being planned by the West German ultra-right-wing German People’s Union. Gerhard Frey, head of the group, said yesterday that the GPU intends to erect the monument to former SS Col. Joachim Peiper, whose charred and bullet-ridden body was found last July in the burned-out ruins of his house in the Burgundy district in France.
Frey said the Dachau site near Munich was selected because Peiper had been convicted there of ordering the execution of 71 American POWs in Belgium during World War II. He was convicted and sentenced to death but eventually reprieved and released from prison in 1966. He was tried later for having ordered the destruction of an Italian village in 1943 and the death of 43 civilians but was acquitted for lack of evidence.
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