Talk:Malmedy massacre

Death of Peiper

The sentence "Peiper's charred corpse was later found in the ruins with a bullet in his chest." does not corrode with what is stated on the article on Peiper, that says he died of smoke inhalation and only his own guns were fired. -Valberg.81.191.94.128 (talk) 01:42, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Recent edit

Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "contrary to events as commonly understood". Further, prisoners were attempting to escape generally comes from apologist sources, including from Peiper himself; see Jens Westemeier (2007) Joachim Peiper, p. 147. --K.e.coffman (talk) 04:58, 21 December 2019 (UTC)

Last survivor of the Malmedy massacre

https://local21news.com/news/local/mount-joy-wwii-veteran-honored-with-letter-from-president-trump

Is it worth updating the link to Harold Billow? He's now 97.

Yes, most definitely - nice to see some good news. Thank you for the suggestion.— Diannaa (talk) 22:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Harold Billow passed away recently, I think he deserves a minor section in the article. Nate Rybner 05:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naterybner (talk • contribs)

Numbers killed by Kampfgruppe Peiper

IP editor. I really don't understand your point. You seem to want to state categorically and solely that KP was responsible for between 538 and 749 US deaths without

1. agreeing that this was a post-war figure presented to the senate in 1949
2. acknowledging that others have come up with different figures

If you are insisting on using a contemporaneous figure then it's up to you to provide a source for that figure and for it to be clear this was a contemporaneous figure based on whatever methodology was used at the time. At the moment you are using the 1949 report to the senate as the source.

It is not anachronistic to discuss the numbers killed regardless of when the formation of opinions occurred. Nthep (talk) 15:56, 2 September 2021 (UTC)

Context

Surely the article should mention the fact Allied soldiers regularly murdered unarmed German POWs? Patton covered up the killings of German POWs in Italy. (86.135.242.61 (talk) 18:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC))

If reliable sources explicitly relate that to the Malmedy massacre, perhaps, with due weight. Avoid original research, especially synthesis. (Hohum ^@) 19:13, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

We don't want to give the impression that the Malmedy massacre was somehow justified because the Allied forces also committed similar acts. That's an inappropriate thing to imply. — Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 21:10, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

This is rather hypothetical, but if reliable sources explicitly state, for instance, that it was a motivation, then it should be in the article, with due weight. I doubt such sources exist. My point being that article content shouldn't be based on sensibilities, but on sources. (Hohum ^@) 01:17, 30 September 2021 (UTC)