Tolerance.ca
Director / Editor: Victor Teboul, Ph.D.
Looking inside ourselves and out at the world
Independent and neutral with regard to all political and religious orientations, Tolerance.ca® aims to promote awareness of the major democratic principles on which tolerance is based.

Notorious Nazi War Criminal Dies in Rome

Erich Priebke, the defiant World War II Nazi SS officer convicted in the wartime massacre of 335 Italian civilians, has died in Rome. He was 100. The Italian newspaper La Repubblica Friday reported Priebke's death, citing his lawyer. A wartime captain in Germany's dreaded Waffen SS, Priebke fled to Argentina after the war. He was arrested there in 1994 and extradited to Rome, where he was tried, convicted and sentenced to a life term under house arrest. Dubbed "the butcher of ...


Read complete article

© Voice of America -
Subscribe to Tolerance.ca


Follow us on ...
Facebook Twitter