Erich Priebke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS, convicted of war crimes in Italy
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Place of Birth: Hennigsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
About Erich Priebke
- Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany.
- In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy, for participating in the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German SS Police Regiment Bozen.
- Priebke was one of the men held responsible for this mass execution.
- After the defeat of Nazi Germany, he fled to Argentina where he lived for almost 50 years. In 1991, Priebke's participation in the Rome massacre was denounced in Esteban Buch's book El pintor de la Suiza Argentina.
- In 1994, 50 years after the massacre, Priebke felt he could now talk about the incident and was interviewed by American ABC news reporter Sam Donaldson.
- This caused outrage among people who had not forgotten the incident, and led to his extradition to Italy and a trial which lasted more than four years.
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