From Wikipedia.
The Malmedy Massacre Trial (U.S. vs. Valentin Bersin, et al.) was held May-July 1946 in the former Dachau Concentration Camp to try the German Waffen-SS accused of the Malmedy Massacre of 17 December 1944. The highest ranking defendant was the former Waffen-SS General Sepp Dietrich.
A tribunal of U.S. Army officers tried 73 Waffen-SS officers and soldiers, most of whom had beem ,e,bers of the 1st SS Division Adolf Hitler Bodyguard
The defendants included German officers Sepp Dietrich, Fritz Kramer, Hermann Priess and Jachim Peoper. SS-Standartenfuhrer Joachim Peiper, commander of the 1st SS Panzer Regiment was the main group who had committed the massacre.
Colonel Willis M. Everett Jr. led the defense team and Colonel Burton Ellis led the prosecution team in the trial of the Waffen-SS war criminals indicted for the massacres of more than 300 U.S. Army POWs in the vicinity of Malmedy and other places, as well as the massacre of 100 Belgian civilians at Stavelot, during the 16 December 1944 to 13 January 1945 period of the Battle of the Bulge.
--GreGen
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