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March 25, 1998
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Italy’s highest government officials joined hundreds of Romans and representatives of the Jewish community to mark the 54th anniversary of Italy’s worst wartime Nazi atrocity. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Rome’s chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, were among the officials who placed wreaths at the Ardeatine Caves south of Rome, scene of a 1944 massacre of 335 Roman men and boys, including about 75 Jews. An appeals court in Rome earlier this month handed down life sentences to two of the Nazi SS officers involved in the killings, Erich Priebke and Karl Hass. Both men are in their 80s and are being held under house arrest.

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