An Italian sentenced to lifetime in prison last month for his role in Italy’s worst World War II massacre was freed from house arrest, according to his lawyer. SS Maj. Karl Hass is appealing his sentence for his role in the 1944 Ardeatine Caves massacre, which killed 335 men and boys, 75 of them Jews.
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