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Erich Priebke

1913 - 2013

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Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level Schutzstaffel (SS) commander in the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for 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 end of World War II in Europe, he fled to Argentina, where he lived for almost 50 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Priebke is the 390th most popular military personnel (down from 322nd in 2019), the 942nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 745th in 2019) and the 74th most popular German Military Personnel.

Erich Priebke was a German SS officer who was found guilty of the 1944 massacre of 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Priebke ranks 390 out of 2,058. Before him are Iwane Matsui, Andrei Grechko, Prokop the Great, Alexander Samsonov, Henry Maitland Wilson, and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. After him are Jean-Andoche Junot, Laskarina Bouboulina, Carl Spaatz, Charles Lee, Hermann Balck, and Gustav Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Erich Priebke ranks 47. Before him are René Clément, Artur Axmann, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Leônidas, Yasuo Suzuki, and Motoo Tatsuhara. After him are Xi Zhongxun, Aimé Césaire, Mary Ainsworth, Mehmet Shehu, Peter Cushing, and Richard Stone. Among people deceased in 2013, Erich Priebke ranks 50. Before him are Jesús Franco, Ray Manzarek, Ieng Sary, James Gandolfini, Masao Uchino, and James M. Buchanan. After him are Bert Trautmann, Don Shirley, Chinua Achebe, Gyula Horn, Robert Fogel, and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Priebke ranks 942 out of 7,253. Before him are Frei Otto (1925), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), Edith Frank (1900), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Helmut Schön (1915), and John George III, Elector of Saxony (1647). After him are David Fabricius (1564), Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Hrotsvitha (935), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), and Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Erich Priebke ranks 74. Before him are Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905), Georg von Frundsberg (1473), Walther Wenck (1900), Hans-Joachim Marseille (1919), Götz von Berlichingen (1480), and Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870). After him are Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Erich Kempka (1910), Günther Lütjens (1889), Günther Prien (1908), and Reinhard Scheer (1863).

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