peoplepill id: georg-fleps
GF
1 views today
1 views this week
Georg Fleps
The basics
Quick Facts
| Intro | SS personnel |
| Is | Military personnel |
| From | Germany Romania |
| Type | Military |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 1922, Cisnădioara, Cisnădie, Sibiu County, Romania |
| Age | 99 years |
| Peoplepill ID | georg-fleps |
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
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.
comments so far.
Comments
Reference sources
References
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ww2/malmedy2.html
http://hnn.us/article/120359
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC79185B327C6B5EE