Karl Hass ( 5 October 1912 &ndash; 21 April 2004 ) was an SS officer and German spy who helped deport more than 1,000 Italian Jews to Auschwitz . A perpetrator in the Ardeatine massacre , in which 335 civilians were murdered , he was tried and convicted in Italy in 1998 . He spent the last years of his life under limited house arrest in " the splendor of the beautiful Swiss Alps "
Ardeatine massacre
Ardeatine massacre
Karl Hass