Fury at campaign to free Nazi war criminal

When the former SS captain Erich Priebke was convicted in Italy in 1997 for his part in the massacre of 335 civilians during World War II many heaved a sigh of relief.

The Nazi war criminal, who had spent the post-war decades at large in the wild expanses of Argentinian Patagonia, was put under house arrest for the rest of his life. Better late than never, they said.

But now, less than seven years later, the wounds of the 1944 slaughter at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome are being reopened as Priebke's supporters say he has suffered enough and it is time to set the 90-year-old free.

"Every year Priebke is held the life is draining out of him," said Paolo Giachini, a friend of Priebke who provided the house in Rome where the former Nazi is confined. "He is old and sick. This treatment is inhumane and degrading."

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Hows does a butcher get 'supporters'? I didn't know the American Republican Party had an office in Italy?

Sheesh. He got off lucky compared to a lot Nazi's.

eat what you want when you want?

drink beer?

smoke?

sleep when you want?

watch TV?

use the Internet?