Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke dies at 100

  • 11 years ago
A former German Nazi SS officer convicted of one of Italy's worst wartime massacres has died in Rome at the age of 100.

In March 1944, Erich Priebke was in charge of troops who executed 335 civilians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome, in retaliation for the killings of 33 German soldiers by a partisan group.

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