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slipping and falling from the balcony and was taken to hospital, where he ultimately gave testimony to court officials. In the court records, Hass admitted the execution of two civilians, but defended his actions by claiming he was only following orders, a defence which has been ruled invalid since the
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television crew. As a result of the ensuing uproar in Italy, he was eventually extradited to stand trial. Hass returned to Italy to testify against Priebke, but decided against it and attempted to flee from his hotel room by climbing down from an outside balcony. He seriously injured himself after
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Tried and convicted for his role in the Ardeatine action, Hass was sentenced to life in prison in 1998. Considered to be in poor health, he was held under limited house arrest in what was described as "a retirement villa in his favourite area of Switzerland" until his death in 2004.
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on the outskirts of Rome. Hass, Priebke and their soldiers systematically executed each captive with a shot to the back of the head. The
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Following a 23 March 1944 bomb attack in the Via Rasella by Italian resistance fighters that killed 33 soldiers, Hass, Capt.
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At some point in the 1960s, Hass returned to Italy. According to journalist Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Hass appeared as an
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After the war, Hass was taken prisoner by the Allies, but rather than being brought to justice for his
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and fellow officers rounded up 335 Italians and the next day transported them to the
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to set up a network of radio operators and to organize saboteurs behind the invading
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In 1994, Priebke, who had helped Hass with the executions, was interviewed in
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Germans convicted of war crimes committed in Italy during World War II
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The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive
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is one of the most notorious in the Italian history of
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Index

Karl Haas
Karl Haas (conductor)
SS
Hauptsturmführer
Italian Jews
Auschwitz
Ardeatine massacre
Kiel
Sicherheitsdienst
Benito Mussolini
Nazi Germany
Rome
Allied
Obersturmbannführer
Herbert Kappler
Auschwitz
Princess Mafalda of Savoy
King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy
Berlin
Munich
Buchenwald concentration camp
Ardeatine massacre
Erich Priebke
Ardeatine caves
Ardeatine massacre
World War II
war crimes
United States Army
Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC)
Soviet Union

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