Former German officer of the SS '' units '' notorious Nazi war criminal and Erich Priebke died today at his residence in Rome at the age of 100 years .
Priebke was serving a life sentence for his role in the 1944 reprisals in the case known as the tragedy of Ardeatine Caves on the outskirts of Rome , killing 335 men and boys, including 75 Jews .
This ghoulish , Hitler ordered by police 33 days after Nazi '' SS '' units from the Italian city of Bolzano German-speaking population were killed by bombs partisans in Rome , was one of the most serious crimes nëItali during World War II .
Priebke , was discovered by a reporter for ABC to have retired as a teacher had been officially in Argentina in 1994 and later extradited to Italy a year later , where he was sentenced to life imprisonment In 1998 , but was left under house arrest as a result of serious medical condition in 2003 .
'' Ardeatine Caves victims are transformed into angels and they will deal with it forever , "said Riccardo Pacifici , the head of the Jewish community in Rome .
" Erich Priebke will face justice in the next world '', he said .
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