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Georg Fleps

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Georg Fleps (* b. 1922 in Romania) was a Sturmmann and assistant gunner to Hans Siptrott, serving in the Waffen-SS under Joachim Peiper. He was found guilty of War Crimes in the Malmedy Massacre during the Battle of the Bulge and sentenced to death on 20 March 1948. The sentence was commuted to 20 years in August 1951.

Georg Fleps was interviewed and appears in archival footage in a documentary, Über Galgen wächst kein Gras (No grass grows over the gallows), released in 2005. (ab Minute 35:44). Fleps is the defendant Nr. 14.

References

  • Danny S. Parker: Fatal Crossroads: The untold story of the Malmedy massacre at the battle of the bulge. Da Capo Press, New York, 2012, S. 149–151
  • Paul Milata: Zwischen Hitler, Stalin und Antonescu: Rumäniendeutsche in der Waffen-SS, Böhlau Verlag, Weimar, Berlin, Wien, 2009, S. 261

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