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Erich Priebke
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Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS, convicted of war crimes in Italy (1913-2013)
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1913-07-29 ) 29 July 1913, Hennigsdorf , German Empire
- Died
- 11 October 2013 (2013-10-11) (aged 100), Rome, Italy
- Allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- Branch
- Schutzstaffel
- Rank
- Hauptsturmführer
- Unit
- Allgemeine SS Gestapo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Erich
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hennigsdorf
- Place of death
- Rome
- Employer
- Gestapo
- Political party
- Nazi Party
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Schutzstaffel
- Military rank
- Hauptsturmführer
- Image
- Erich Priebke in servizio presso l'ambasciata tedesca di Roma.jpg
- Convicted of
- crime against humanity
- Significant event
- Ardeatine massacre
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- date of birth
- 1913-07-29
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- member of
- Schutzstaffel
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- name in kana
- エーリヒ・プリーブケ
- name in native language
- Erich Priebke
- subject has role
- centenarian
- Commons category
- Erich Priebke
- pseudonym
- Otto Pape
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Encyclopedic overview
Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level Schutzstaffel (SS) commander in the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for 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 end of World War II in Europe, 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 then 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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