BERLIN (Reuters) - Authorities in the hometown of a Nazi war criminal are trying to block any attempt to bury him there following opposition to a funeral for him in Argentina and in Rome, where he died last week at the age of 100.
German former SS officer Erich Priebke had been serving a life sentence under house arrest for his role in the killing of 335 civilians in 1944 in caves near Rome, one of Italy's worst wartime massacres. He never apologised.
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