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| Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke dies | Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke dies |
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| Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke has died at the age of 100 in Italy, his lawyer has told Italian media. | |
| Priebke was jailed for life in 1998 for his role in the WWII massacre of 335 Italians at the Ardeatine Caves. | Priebke was jailed for life in 1998 for his role in the WWII massacre of 335 Italians at the Ardeatine Caves. |
| But because of his age and poor health, he was allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest in Rome. | |
| The move caused anger over what some people in the city regarded as conditions that were far too comfortable and lenient. | The move caused anger over what some people in the city regarded as conditions that were far too comfortable and lenient. |
| Priebke was one of the SS officers present during the killing of men and boys at the caves in 1944, in a reprisal attack ordered by Adolf Hitler for the killing of 33 German soldiers in Rome by resistance fighters. | |
| He was among the officers who oversaw the operation to round up victims and transport them to a network of caves on the outskirts of the city where they were all shot. | |
| Though Priebke admitted his role in the massacre, he never expressed any remorse and maintained he was following orders. | |
| In July, an association representing families of some of the victims of the massacre renewed calls for Priebke to "find the courage to ask for forgiveness". | |
| He was extradited to Italy in 1994 after he was discovered working as a school teacher in Argentina. | |
| His lawyer, Paolo Giachini, said he had left a final video interview as his "human and political testament", but it was unclear what it contained and when it would be released. | |
| Priebke had been living in his lawyer's apartment in Rome. |