Germany and Italy ‘conspired to protect Second World War massacre perpetrators’

Kurt von Tannstein, an adviser to the German embassy who had joined the Nazi
party in 1933, wrote that the objective was to “to put [the affair] to
rest, as desired by both the German and Italian sides.” He also wrote
that both camps wanted investigations into the massacre to “sleep”.

German diplomats with a Nazi past may have sought to protect the SS men
responsible owing to old loyalties that survived the war, and the fact that
many of the war veterans now held respected positions.

By 1959 Carl-Theodor Schutz, the SS captain who apparently conducted the
firing squad, had become an agent for West German intelligence, while Kurt
Winden, another SS officer allegedly involved in the massacre, worked for
Deutsche Bank.

Only two men were ever prosecuted for 1944 killings. In 1998 an Italian court
sentenced former SS soldiers Karl Hass and Erich Priebke to life
imprisonment for their role in the massacre.

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