Steve Domitrovich (2015): Survivor of Malmedy Massacre 

That's my Uncle and so thankful he survived! He has been a wonderful blessing to our family. Love you Uncle Steve and Aunt Helen!

... Stephen Jude Dometrovich passed away, 20 Oct 2019. Rest In Peace, Sir ...

Thanks for recording their memories before they are lost forever. Brave man !

Survivor guilt is common among war veterans and sometimes the survivor is burdened with constant intrusive thoughts of the horrific nature of the event overlaid with intense feelings of guilt and grief. Mr. Domitrovich is a hero.

Dr. Buck Braden !!! From Coraopolis, Pa. he delivered me and all my four sisters ... I was born in 1955... in Sewickley Valley Hospital. Dr. Braden’s father delivered my Dad in 1917.... in 2000 I worked for a school bus company.... at 94 years of age .Dr. Braden did my employment physical... he was amazing... He also served as a Lt. Colonel in the US Army with Patton... He was highly decorated for bravery... he was still practicing medicine in 2004 when I moved to Lancaster.... at 97 years of age!!!

Oh my god my great grandfather Russel T Carr was a survivor he had to fake his death and survive a boot kick . After all this happened he woke up in a French hospital . On Christmas Day my great great grandparents got a letter saying he was one of the survivors . He was from Hamburg NY . I still have his photos dog tag news article on this malmedy massacre . Amazing story I'm so happy I can pass this amazing story to my children because my whole family owes their life to him

I’m from Coraopolis, a few miles from Alliquippa... my Uncles went to Europe, my Dad was an officer in the Navy. Two uncles were fighter pilots. One was an army medic, another drove a half track in Patton’s corps... they all survived somehow...

Thank you for keeping us free with love from England

I remember Steve growing up. He operated a small convenience store in Aliquippa PA and was always happy and funny. I had no idea about his WW2 experience. Men back then avoided talking about their service. But I could tell there was something special about him. It is very hard to kill a noble man, even for Nazis. God was watching over him, I believe. He and my Dad were the same age and my Dad got wounded in the battle of the Hertgen Forest in October, just 2 months before this happened. RIP Steve, you were a blessing to everyone you dealt with. We loved you, your store and the service you provided the community.

These Hero's .. The stories they tell are so precious to history .. My father passed away last year and he was one year short of WW2 .. Born in 1928 and raised in NYC .. The stories he tells from stateside always entranced me .. He was eventually drafted into " The Forgotten War " Korea and served .. I honor these men .. The Greatest Generation .. amazing what these young men endured . and speak so openly about their experience .... I cherish this

We love you Steve also Helen thank you for your service.

Thank you Mr. Domitrovich to do that interview and for your Service. Your witness is a powerful message.

I am very honored to be able to hear such great experiences. Helen was great!!

Excellent story! I fell blessed to see the video! Patrick from Albuquerque

Thank you for your service 🇺🇸

God bless you sir, you were saved, Im sure there was a reason and a purpose Thank you to all who served

He was not the last survivor I have a neighbor who is 96 , named Harold Billow who is still alive living in Mount Joy PA.

Thanks for sharing! Amazing story of survival. Horrible incident, war is hell.

Thank you for researching, recording and posting this incredibly important piece of historical narrative. It is from stories such as these that we gain context and texture of this momentous historical period. Again, thank you.

Thank you for my freedom sir.

Thx for your service sir :)

My wife's uncle, Grover, was there. He was a runner from the 80th Division and attached to Company B of the 285th Forward Observation Battalion when they were surprised by Kampfgruppe Peiper and taken to the Baugnez cross roads and mowed down by Peiper's men. Uncle Grover was shot in the head but survived the massacre. RIP Uncle Grover; Joachim Peiper is serving his sentence in hell. Cheers from eastern TN

I have done a bunch of biking in that area of Belgium and its such a peaceful area. Hard to fathom the violence that went on.

Poor old dear has been through so much!

Thank You For Your Service In Protecting America

Astounding story....

What an incredible, almost unbelievable, story. I simply cannot imagine going through that. Was is hell and this American hero lived through it. 🇺🇸

So goes the Greatest Generation. RIP ladies and gentlemen. You did well.

A very detailed chilling account of the masacre,I wonder if his duties alowed him to make it to the Malmedy trial,that would have cleared up a lot.

Glad this man survived, war is hell.

One of Americas greatest from the greatest generation. God had a plan for you sir, that is why you survived. If not to tell the story, to raise your family. Bless you sir and thank you for your service. Semper Fi

I could never get my grandfather to talk about the war in depth like this guy did but from what he did say it seems like he went through a similar hell. I think the most terrible memories he had he almost felt too guilty to share with anyone in the family, but he did talk to other guys that were on the ship with him. Maybe you just had to be there to really understand. He was on the destroyer escort England de635, which sunk 6 Japanese submarines in 12 days. Not long after that, the Japanese had found out and targeted the England heavily with kamikazes in April 1944. Grandpa was a Gunner and saw one coming low and fast right at him, he saw the pilot (who was dead from machine gun fire) as the plane passed over head and hit the tower. But the pilot had managed to arm the 500 pound bomb in time and everyone in the tower was killed and they nearly lost the ship to the fire. I can remember being around 10 years old and seeing a picture of the whole crew in an old box, when I noticed about half of the men had a pencil mark on their hats in the picture. I asked him why, and that's when he told me those were the ones who died in the kamikaze attack.

Amazing story. Amazing people.

Harold Billow in Mount Joy PA is still alive and he was there.

I'd imagine being a truck driver or some sort of convoy puts you at greater risk for being captured. Wrong turn, no support, no cover, no protection...or your lines collapse and suddenly you're in enemy territory.

So sad for those soldiers. And I might add when I saw photo's of the Natives at Wounded Knee Massacre, SD there were women, children and old people dead in the snow as well.

Un grand bonjour,du peuple Belge, maintenant un musée y a été ériger .je passe quelquefois a Malmedy .

My dad was in the 818 tank destroyer battalion in Germany at this time and he told me after the massacre they took no German prisoners alive.

Salute!

kind of reminds me a bit of my Uncle LS Moses Mc Elroy RN , who was torpedoed by USS grouper as a POW !!

I visited the site last year. Someone had built a house in the field where the massacre took place.

I wish youtube had a screening process to weed out idiots, the heartless, those who obviously failed history courses in school, those with no conscience, and most of all, the persons who are sure they know everything but clearly identify by the way they write that they don't know a thing. No, it would be easier if intelligent, articulate people with an easily verifiable knowledge of history would stay away from youtube altogether. Very amusing that developers thought early on that this platform would bring people and cultures together. What it actually did was bring people and VULTURES together.

GOD BLESS YOU! LOVE WILL BE WITH YOU! I FEEL SO SORRY! I AM A GERMAN...I FEEL SO SORRY! TEARS IN MY EYES!

Peiper was great!

My cousin’s mother convinced about 10 young ss to surrender to the Americans,they were taking shelter in her basement They surrendered and were all shot on the village square by the US army… This happened in small village named Herbsheim/Alsace,France

Wow legend hope you got every medal the states can offer

It's May 25, 2022, and I just read an article about the last survivor passing away at 99. His name was Harold Billow, though. So who's lying?

you believed in God ,and he chose to save you , you wish to know why you were saved alive ,to bare witness ,and there was more than one survivor , because there must be more than one witness to verify the truth of what happened ,so it could not be denied by those that would try to discredit your testimony , you believe in God ,then also believe in satan , the adversary ,who motivates men to be evil ,and is behind all war ,and strife between mankind, but as Sir Winston Churchill said before the league of nations ,there is a purpose being worked out here below , he could see the bigger picture , and eventually you will be shown the reason for all these events in your life , rather than ask God why ,thank God he saved you , though you probably already have done, I salute you ,your a better man than me .

God bless him. Such a shame that he has had to live with survivors guilt all that time.

The Massacre. Disturbing, Saddening. He would scream in the hospital, while dreaming.9:47 8:59

God Bless you sir, I know you’re in Heaven looking down on this cruel world! ✝️🙏🏼✝️

You know when people say they were 18 when they got drafted should be asked “were you really 18? Or were you told to say you were 18? Because my grandpa was 16 when he was drafted and afew of his friends were 16 as well even in the pictures they looked so young...I’m willing to bet there was a lot more 16 year olds in that war then we think

He has survivors guilt.

that isnt the last survivor. there is a guy in Mount Joy PA, named Harold Billow

Wow, Mary. Amazing and Im so glad he did survive. I have (Im a historian) had correspondence with a living relative of Joachim Peiper's who was initally sentenced to death for his role in this mess but was later let off the hook after basically serving 12 yrs, a part on death row, in isolation and was released b/c of the interrogation methods ect. I truly believe that those soldiers who murdered American there deserved their punishment. But, hearing from his daughter, she told me that he did not give the orders to the wicked soldiers (they say b/c this was a tank battalion, they couldn't take prisoners and that the SS there were scared, under fire and felt that b/c they were SS they were going to be shot/killed. But, that Joachim Peiper, was miles ahead of this group that captured these brave American soldiers who were taken prisoners by the tank group, did not order his men to kill these American men, that he was actually angry that they murdered these Americans and that he truly was innocent of these grisly murders. It was a fringe group in the SS tank batallion (and other passing German soldiers actually shot at these captured troops too)...but that in honor of Joachim Peiper and his legacy that he was actually a honorable, distinguished and loyal (he offered his guilt if his men could be let off the hook, like Sepp Deitrich, who was not even with the group); but that Joachim Peiper was actually a good soldier and person. Also, what was horrible was after this your this poor man was ordered immediately back into combat..crazy

My late uncle was in Patton's 3rd Army relieving Bastogne. He told me in the mid 1970's that when word of the Malmedy Massacre got out to American troops, more than a few units stopped taking SS prisoners-they just took them out in the woods and shot them. Regular German troops-the Wehrmacht-were treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention, but SS troops were often shot. It got so bad that Eisenhower had to issue an order that summary execution of SS prisoners would result in arrest and prosecution of the guilty party, that stopped most of it. There was a lot of anger and bitterness.

10:08 12:43. 12:47 13:01......... I cried hard. 13:13.......

hes sharp

Can't imagine surviving something so horrible,, and they always say physical wounds always heal but mental psychologically wounds don't,, God bless this veteran,, as for the WAFFEN-SS they were nothing more than terrorists nothing more not soldiers and they should be remembered as that through history,,

Did he fall and play dead because he thought he had been shot, or was he trying to fool the Nazis from the start?

where was william westmoreland when this hppnd

He fought for Wallstreet. Great passion for FED and Rothschild.

where was patton and omar bradley

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PEIPER LEYEND 🦵🏻💪🏻🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

was this in the ardens forrest

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Os americanos também mataram muitos prisioneiros alemaes na mesma época ,mas foi escondido

"Hey, I have an idea ... we should openly massaker those guys who are kicking our asses. That will end well for us!"

Can a sherman tank stop a king tiger tank

Thank you for your service. Kangaroo Ally!

those Sherman tanks were small pieces of crap

I read Danny Parker's book, the accounts of the survivors haunted me for a long time. Respect for these soldiers, what a horrible unthinkable dishonourable deed... a few of the Germans could have waited for the group that was coming behind to collect the prisoners while most of the troops could keep advancing towards the Meuse but no, their meanness, delusional stupidity and hubris was unbelievable.

Oh wow that was not nice younshowed him the picture of his murdered comradea.that was not polite

"dump them in woods "

sounds a bit like Victor's justice. both sides were as bad as each other

Can be a hoax?!

There are no "saints" in war.

We all know the SS did terrible things...glad this gentleman survived to tell the story... my gramps never said a word 301st BG 15thAF 419thsq.

This man, have our surname,icredible..His urname is from former Yugoslavia

Nice guy and all respect but atrocities were caused on both sides.

He wasn't meant to die that day .Pity the SS slithered their way out of it .Bad result for justice.

SS didnt take prisoners??????? they absolutly did!!!!!

The Americans saved the world alot.

I dont believe als word of the som called malmedy massacre

This man admits to leaving wounded German soldiers in the middle of nowhere to die yet expects us to pity him and his comrades for the retaliation the Germans brought against him.

It was not a Massacre. Basically the Geneva Convention says, if your a POW and you run.... wait for it...... you can be shot! Basically some GI's tried escaping by overpowering the very few guards, a melee ensued and the passing Column saw this and started opening fire as well as the Soldiers on foot following the convoy. It was tragic yes but it was a ill advised attempt at best. What US History will not tell you is that the Waffen SS present there actually treated the POW's well giving them rations and treating their wounds. This guy is full of shit.. He is part of the problem telling lies.

Mendacious allied "truth"! There had never been a massacre carried out by german troops. Those U.S. gumps had almost surrendered but revolted against their watchdogs - so they were disciplined!

yeah the baaad germans and the goood yankees that never did massacres...

The Malmedy Massacre dosen't exsist!🤨