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  "description": "Josef \"Sepp\" Dietrich (28 May 1892 – 21 April 1966) was a German general, politician and war criminal in the Schutzstaffel (SS) during the Nazi era.\n\nDespite having no formal staff officer training (and little formal education at all), Dietrich rose to become (along with Paul Hausser) SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer, the highest-ranking commissioned officer rank in the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS, commanding units up to the army level during World War II. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930. Prior to 1929, Dietrich was Adolf Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard.\n\nDietrich was assessed to be more valuable for his political loyalty than his military ability, and was considered to have been elevated above his military competence. Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt considered Dietrich to be \"decent but stupid\". As commanding officer of the 6th Panzer Army during the Battle of the Bulge, Dietrich bore responsibility for the Malmedy massacre, the murder of U.S. prisoners of war in December 1944.\n\nAfter the war, an American military tribunal convicted Dietrich of war crimes at the Malmedy massacre trial. Upon his release from Landsberg Prison in 1955, Dietrich became active in HIAG, a denialist and lobbying group established by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel. He died in 1966 at the age of 73.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Sepp Dietrich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.",
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