An Italian military court ordered a former Nazi convicted in Italy’s worst wartime massacre to serve out his life sentence under house arrest. Former SS Maj. Karl Hass was sentenced earlier this month for his part in the March 1944 massacre of 335 men and boys — about 75 of them Jews — at the Ardeatine Caves near Rome. Also sentenced at the time was ex-SS Capt. Erich Priebke, who is also already serving his life sentence under house arrest.
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