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Erich Priebke

1913 - 2013

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Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German SS Police Regiment Bozen. Priebke was one of the men held responsible for this mass execution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erich Priebke has received more than 1,047,268 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Erich Priebke is the 322nd most popular military personnel (down from 274th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from Germany (down from 625th in 2019) and the 66th most popular German Military Personnel.

Erich Priebke was a German SS officer who was found guilty of the 1944 massacre of 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Erich Priebke ranks 322 out of 2,058. Before him are Walther Wenck, Nikolai Yudenich, Georg von Frundsberg, Kurt Knispel, Thrasybulus, and Abdallah ibn Sa'd. After him are Arthur Nebe, Nearchus, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, Reinhard Gehlen, Prokop the Great, and Shunroku Hata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Erich Priebke ranks 42. Before him are Werner Mölders, Albert Ellis, Jimmy Hoffa, Artur Axmann, René Clément, and Witold Lutosławski. After him are Roger Wolcott Sperry, Jacobo Árbenz, Vinicius de Moraes, Muddy Waters, Aimé Césaire, and Masanobu Fukuoka. Among people deceased in 2013, Erich Priebke ranks 38. Before him are Richard Griffiths, Robert Edwards, Ieng Sary, Jack Vance, Rochus Misch, and Ray Manzarek. After him are Georges Moustaki, Don Shirley, Mohammed Omar, Jerome Karle, Jesús Franco, and James Gandolfini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Erich Priebke ranks 745 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg von Frundsberg (1473), John William Friso, Prince of Orange (1687), Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1750), Maria Anna of Bavaria (1805), David Strauss (1808), and Günter Schabowski (1929). After him are Maria Barbara Bach (1684), Johann Martin Schleyer (1831), Arthur Nebe (1894), Christopher Clavius (1538), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929), and Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Germany

Among military personnels born in Germany, Erich Priebke ranks 66. Before him are Werner Mölders (1913), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Karl-Otto Koch (1897), Kurt Meyer (1910), Walther Wenck (1900), and Georg von Frundsberg (1473). After him are Arthur Nebe (1894), Reinhard Gehlen (1902), Wilhelm Bittrich (1894), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), and Hans-Valentin Hube (1890).

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