Google –AFP, 11 October 2013
Former
German SS officer Erich Priebke, seen at the a Rome military
justice court on
July 30, 1996 (FILES/AFP/File, Gerard Julien)
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Rome —
Former SS captain Erich Priebke, one of the last Nazi war criminals still
alive, who turned 100 years old in July, died Friday in Rome, Italian media
reported.
Priebke,
who was sentenced to life in prison in 1998 for his role in a massacre at
Rome's Ardeatine caves in March 1944, spent the last few years under house
arrest at his lawyer's Rome apartment.
The media
reported that Priebke, who never expressed remorse for the massacre which left
335 people dead, including 75 Jews, had left "a written interview and a
video as a human and political will and testament."
The
massacre victims were executed with a bullet to the neck, killed by the Nazis
in retaliation for an attack by the resistance movement on SS soldiers.
The former
officer had been arrested in 1994 after fleeing to Argentina at the end of
World War II. He had lived there for more than 40 years before being extradited
to Italy in 1995.
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