The Washington Post, February 14th, 2006
Friedrich Engel, 97, a former Nazi SS officer involved in the massacre of Italian prisoners in World War II, died overnight Feb. 4 or Feb. 5, according to his wife. She did not give a cause of death or say where he had died. She said his remains have already been buried. In 2002, a German court convicted Mr. Engel of 59 counts of murder and gave him a suspended seven-year jail term for the 1944 shootings in a mountain pass near the Italian city of Genoa. A federal appeals court said in 2004 that it believed Mr. Engel was responsible for the massacre. But it quashed the conviction, saying the ...
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