Comments by "Quizmaster China" (@QuizmasterLaw) on "Kampfgruppen in WW2" video.

  1. Psst! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu3p7dxrhl8 Really brilliant.
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  2. Joachim Peiper gets so many books because of the Malmedy massacre, which I am surprised you didn't mention. Basically his unit captured a bunch of Americans. In order to move faster he had them all shot. About 100 prisoners died that way. After Malmedy even the U.S. forces would not take surrender from S.S. units. Peiper was not however executed for his war crimes. I believe he was assassinated in France in the 1970s by a bomb attack. He gets a surprisingly good treatment in the history books which he doesn't deserve. He might have been an effective commander but he was also a literal war criminal.
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  3. No, what I said was he gets a lot of books because he was a fucking war criminal. Newsflash: We EXECUTED lots of war criminals and imo not enough.
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  4. I believe but have not proven by research that the Kampfgruppen were an outgrowth of WWI Stosstruppen tactics, which were also ad hoc mission oriented task forces.
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  5. Kg. are one example of German military doctrine being taken up by the U.S. military. Battle group is in deed the literal translation. In U.S. WWII practice their equivalent was called "combat command" thus CCA, (combat command A) and CCB (combat command B). I don't think current U.S. doctrine still uses the terms CCA/CCB though I expect it does still use the battle group concept.
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