Erich Priebke ( 29 July 1913 &ndash; 11 October 2013 ) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force ( SiPo ) of Nazi Germany . In 1996 , he was convicted of war crimes in Italy , for participating in 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 defeat of Nazi Germany , he fled to Argentina where he lived for almost 50 years
Ardeatine massacre
Ardeatine massacre
Erich Priebke