Former Col. Gen. Sepp Dietrich wears a number when facing the 1946 war crimes court that gave him a life imprisonment sentence. Dietrich was commander of the 6th SS panzer army involved in the Malmedy ...
As commander in chief of the Sixth Panzer Army, Joseph (“Sepp”) Dietrich, onetime butcher boy and personal bodyguard to Hitler, was a failure. “He had at most the ability to command a division,” said ...