Joachim Peiper. U.S. Army The following is a reprint of ETHINT 11, prepared by the U.S. Army. Copy obtained from the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Answers were re-transcribed by the interviewer. According to captured maps depicting the axis of advance for 1 and 12 SS Panzer Divisions, the latter is given three routes and the former two. The most southern 12 SS Panzer Division route lies from Losheim to Losheimergraben to Buellingen to Butgenbach, etc. Obst. Peiper has stated that his regiment’s route lay from Scheid to Losheim to Losheimergraben to Huenningen to Honsfeld. This would appear to leave 12 SS Panzer Division two poor “penetration” routes into the Rocherath area through heavily forested terrain from the direction of Hollerath and Neuhof. The map also shows the northern route of 1 SS Panzer Division as springing from Lanzerath, but Obst. Peiper states that this route was taken only after the Losheim – Losheimergraben route proved to be unusable because of resistan...