Furthermore,an article denouncing the conditions under which the assumed guilt of the Malmedy defendants and of other questionable cases was going to be published in February 1949 with the assistance of the National Council for Prevention of War. Van Roden refused to to commute the six remaining death sentences, including Joachim Peiper's, but the executions were postponed.
By 1951 most of the men were released and the only remaining death sentences, those of Peiper and four others, were commuted. Peiper's sentence was further reduced in 1954. Both Sepp Dietrich and Joachim Peiper were released from Landsbberg Prison in 1956.
--GreGen
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