Herbert Kappler
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Gustav Adolph Herbert Kappler was a key German SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. He served as the commander of German security police and security services in Rome during the Second
Kappler in Italy on 9 May 1945
Erich Priebke
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Erich Priebke was a German mid-level Schutzstaffel commander in the Sicherheitspolizei of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible f
Herbert Kappler
…British authorities in 1945, turned over to the Italian government in 1947, and tried the following year. Kappler's second-in-command in Rome, SS-Captain Erich Priebke, managed to escape to Argentina and was not extradited to Italy to face trial over his own role in the Ardeatine Caves Massacre until 1996. In July…
Priebke on duty, 1940s
The cave's entrance at the Fosse Ardeatine Monument