| | Presse-Info - Erich PRIEBKE (1) |
 | | On July 22, 1997, former Nazi SS Captain Erich Priebke was convicted by an Italian military tribunal for his role in the 1994 massacre of 355 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine caves outside of Rome. |
 | | Priebke, who openly discussed his involvement in the massacre to Sam Donaldson of the ABC News show "Primetime" in 1994, justified his action with the excuse that he was following the orders of Gestapo Chief Herbert Kappler. |
 | | Priebke told Donaldson that the victims, including boys of fourteen and men as old as seventy-five, were nothing but "terrorists." He admitted drawing up the lists of those who would be executed, including some seventy Jews, and has even admitted to killing one of them himself. |
| www.juedisches-archiv-chfrank.de /ns-crime/priebke-01.htm (1577 words) |