Outrage in Italy as ex-Nazi officer free to shop
Jewish groups have expressed outrage that a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in Italy is allowed out from his house detention to go shopping or to church.Erich Priebke@@@s lawyer announced this week that an Italian court last year granted the 97-year-old German permission to leave his detention for the "indispensable needs for his life."An official of an organization of Holocaust survivors, Elan Steinberg, said in an e-mail Wednesday that the court@@@s action is a "national disgrace."Priebke was extradited from Argentina in 1994. He was convicted three years later for his role in the massacre in Nazi-occupied Rome. It was carried out in retaliation for an attack by Italian resistance fighters that killed 33 Nazis.ByREUTERS06/08/2025 07:57 AMByREUTERS06/08/2025 05:36 AMByMAARIV06/07/2025 02:33 PMByWALLA!06/07/2025 11:18 AMByREUTERS06/07/2025 03:25 AM
