Erich Priebke (Q57586)

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Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS, convicted of war crimes in Italy (1913-2013)
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Erich Priebke
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    Erich Priebke
    Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS, convicted of war crimes in Italy (1913-2013)
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    A mid-level SS commander and member of the Gestapo, Priebke participated in the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre in Rome in which the Nazis slaughtered 335 people in retaliation for the killing of 33 German SS members by Italian partisans. Priebke admitted killing two of the Italians, but claimed he was only following orders. Priebke also signed off on the transport of 2,000 Roman Jews to Auschwitz and served as the Nazi go-between with the Vatican.HIS PATH TO SOUTH AMERICA: Priebke escaped from a British prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve in 1946 by cutting through barbed wire while his guards were drunk. With the help of Bishop Alois Hudal, Priebke fled to Argentina on a falsified Red Cross passport in 1948. He settled in the idyllic mountain town of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Patagonia region, where he operated at a Viennese deli and worked at a German school, living under his own name. (English)
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    26 March 2018
    24 August 2018
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    Erich Priebke (29 Jul 1913 - 11 Oct 2013)
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