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Following the collapse of the Nazis rule in Italy, Kappler and Priebke were arrested by the Allied forces in 1944. However Priebke escaped from prison in 1946 and with the help of corrupt officials in the Vatican he escaped Europe with his family to Argentina. | Following the collapse of the Nazis rule in Italy, Kappler and Priebke were arrested by the Allied forces in 1944. However Priebke escaped from prison in 1946 and with the help of corrupt officials in the Vatican he escaped Europe with his family and other SS members and Holocaust perpetrators to Argentina. | ||
In 1994, ABC news reporter Sam Donaldson located Priebke and interviewed him. Priebke admitted to the massacre, but insisted that the people executed where terrorist, he denied the execution of teenagers in the cave, denied ever deporting Jews to the death camps, and denied personally shooting anyone in the caves. During the interview, Priebke insisted that he was only following orders and didn't much sorrow for his actions. | In 1994, ABC news reporter Sam Donaldson located Priebke and interviewed him. Priebke admitted to the massacre, but insisted that the people executed where terrorist, he denied the execution of teenagers in the cave, denied ever deporting Jews to the death camps, and denied personally shooting anyone in the caves. During the interview, Priebke insisted that he was only following orders and didn't much sorrow for his actions. |