On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Carol B. <cbyrne60@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Alex, thank you for contacting me.  Yes I am very interested in hearing your evidence.  Briefly this is what I have and what I am looking for.
I investigated the murders of the inhabitants in Jefremowka/Єфремівка last year. (I am a student of History) I found evidence that is was the 'work' of Kurt Meyer '1st SS Liebstandarte Adolf Hitler'
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[font=Times]He was in the village on the same day the atrocity took place, I found this from the records of the Leibstandarte.  I also found testimony from 3 German Prisoners-of-war who say he did it.   I am satisfied that I have right man.  However, just in the last week I have started to try and find the crimes of another man from the Leibstandarte.  His name is Jochen Peiper:
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[font=Times]He was captured by the Americans in 1945 and put on trial, he also fought in the third battle for Kharkov and his battalion became known as the 'Blowtorch battalion' because they set some many villages on fire in Ukraine.   But the Americans got their information wrong and they blamed Peiper for JEFREMOWKA, STANITSCHNOJE and STAROVEROVKA.  But I do not think these are the villages that he destroyed, I think there are other villages that I do not have the name for.
Peiper has had many books written about him in the English language, but no author has researched this time period.  He was there from February 4th 1943 until the end of March 1943 but possibly longer as he took part in the battle of 'Kursk'.   I am still in the very early stages of trying to find out exactly where he was, but any help you have would be welcomed.
Can you tell me the details of any village you know that was destroyed in this time, mostly by burning it and killing the residents.    I think of the three villages mentioned, the only one he may have been in was Staroverovka as his commander was in charge of that assault, but from your website, it looks like that was a military engagement more than a crime against innocent villages, although I see that many citizens were killed in the fighting and you have mentioned recruits being taken to a barn and burnt.
I hope you can understand all this, I can translate it here on the computer if you would prefer.
Thanking you
Carol Byrne
Ireland