Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer
Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 19, citing Peiper to Karl Wortmann, November 28, 1974 in note 27.
“Always the victor writes the history of the vanquished. He who beats distorts the faces of the beaten. The weaker depart from this world and the lies remain.”
— Bertolt Brecht, book The Trial of Lucullus
The Trial of Lucullus (1940), Brecht Collected Plays, vol. 4, p. 386.
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