# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sepp-dietrich
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:55:46.329Z

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name: "Sepp Dietrich"
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description: "Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard who climbed to the top of the SS military command despite little formal education and what his own generals called stupidity. His political loyalty mattered more than his competence, and that loyalty carried him to command during the Battle of the Bulge — where his forces murdered U.S. prisoners at Malmedy."
tagline: "German Military Officer and Waffen-SS general and a convicted Nazi Military war criminal (1892-1966)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Josef Dietrich joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and spent his early years driving and protecting Adolf Hitler. By 1930 he held a seat in the Weimar Reichstag. He rose through the Waffen-SS to SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, the branch's highest commissioned rank, commanding army-level units in World War II without any staff officer training. Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt called him "decent but stupid". In December 1944, as commander of the 6th Panzer Army at the Battle of the Bulge, Dietrich bore responsibility for the Malmedy massacre, the execution of American POWs. An American military tribunal convicted him of war crimes. Released from Landsberg Prison in 1955, he joined HIAG, a denialist group of former Waffen-SS officers, and remained active until his death in 1966.