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Secret burial for Nazi war criminal

Agencies
Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, who died under house arrest in Rome last week, is to be buried in a secret location, his lawyer said on Saturday.
On Wednesday, his coffin was seized by the Italian authorities and taken to a military base near Rome after a funeral was halted amid angry protests.
Rome city authorities have banned any burial for the war criminal and the Vatican earlier issued an unprecedented order barring any Catholic church in the city from holding a funeral mass for the war criminal.
Argentina - where Priebke lived for nearly 50 years before being extradited to Italy - refused to fulfil his wish to have his body repatriated for burial beside his wife.
Priebke's hometown in Germany also refused to take the body, over fears that any place of burial could become a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.
Priebke was extradited from Argentina and jailed for life in Italy over the 1944 killing of335 civilians.
The whereabouts of the burial are unknown but Giachini is reported as saying that "we had contacts to bury the coffin of Priebke both in Italy and in Germany”.
The German embassy in Rome has said it had not been contacted by Priebke's lawyer and had no request
for a burial, the Italian news agency Ansa quoted embassy sources as saying.
He was one of the SS officers overseeing the killing of men and boys at Rome's Ardeatine Caves in March 1944, one of the worst massacres in Italy during World War II.
In a reprisal for the killing of 33 German soldiers in Rome by resistance fighters, 335 Italian civilians were shot dead.
Though Priebke admitted his role in the massacre, he never expressed any remorse and maintained he was following orders.
In a video message recorded before he died - and released posthumously by his lawyer - the former SS officer repeated the defence he had given at his war crimes trial.
He said he had received direct orders from Adolf Hitler to carry out the massacre.
Priebke was extradited in 1994 after investigative journalists from US televi-
sion network ABC News tracked him down in Argentina.
In 1998, he was sentenced to life in prison. However, he pleaded that he was too old and sick for jail, and was soon allowed to switch to a regime of house arrest.
The controversy over his long life as a free man and the lax conditions of his house arrest and the subsequent funeral arrangements has shown how raw the wounds of that massacre still are in the city.
Relatives of his victims and Jewish groups including the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said the body should be cremated -as has been the case for most of the top Nazi war criminals.
The row, some say, was useful as testimony to the gravity of the crimes committed by the Nazis.
"Thank you Priebke for reminding us of the horror," Italy's best-selling daily, Corriere della Sera, said in an editorial.