A ranar 6 ga watan Mayu na shekarar 1943, an ba wa Peiper lambar yabo ta Jamus a Gold saboda nasarorin da ya samu a watan Fabrairun shekarar 1943.
Tabbas, mafi rikitarwa na jumla shine "A ranar 6 ga Mayu, 1943, an ba Peiper lambar yabo ta Jamus a cikin Zinare don nasarorin da ya samu a watan Fabrairun 1943 a kusa da Kharkov, inda ƙungiyarsa ta sami laƙabi da''Blowtorch Battalion' '. "