Italy’s highest appeals court upheld the life sentences imposed on two former Nazis convicted of helping carry out the worst Nazi war crime committed on Italian soil. The court rejected an appeal to overturn the life sentences handed down by a lower appeals court in March against former SS officers Erich Priebke and Karl Hass, both in their mid-80s. The two were sentenced for their role in the March 1944 massacre of 335 Romans, including about 75 Jews, at the Ardeatine Caves south of Rome.
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