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Herbert Kappler (23 September 1907 – 9 February 1978) was a key German SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. He served as head of German police and security services ( Sicherheitspolizei and SD) in Rome during the Second World War and was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre.
Feb 10, 1978 · SOLTAU, West Germany, Feb. 9 (Reuters)—Herbert Kappler; a_convicted Nazi war criminal, died of stomach cancer here today, six months after- a daring escape from a Rome military hospital. iie was...
Herbert Kappler. (1907 - 1978) Herbert Kappler was born on September 23, 1907, to a middle-class family in Stuttgart in the German Empire. Kappler joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1931 and the SS in 1933. In January 1936, he was assigned to duty at the Gestapo central office of Stuttgart.
The German police attaché and commander of the Security Police in Rome, SS Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler was on the scene soon afterwards to supervise the investigation.
Nov 21, 2018 · By 2 p.m., SS Commander Herbert Kappler’s anti-Jewish operation was complete. After being held for 30 hours, the 1,022 Jews who were arrested in the raid were sent from Rome’s Tiburtina train...
After receiving permission from Hitler himself, Herbert Kappler, the SD (Security Service of the SS) Chief in Rome, immediately ordered massive retaliation. The reprisal he called for entailed the execution of ten Italians for every policemen killed.
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Kappler was the Gestapo colonel who ruled Rome during the German occupation of 1943-1944, and who was the urbane yet ruthless arch-nemesis of the heroic Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty. The German officer presided over various atrocities as Hitler's representative in Rome, including the deportation of Jews destined for Auschwitz and the Ardeatine ...
May 8, 1996 · Priebke’s commanding officer, Col. Herbert Kappler, was put on trial in postwar Rome; in 1948 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Ardeatine Caves atrocity, but his wife eventually ...
Herbert Kappler was a lieutenant colonel of the SS and Chief of Police in Rome during World War II. Kappler was arrested by British authorities and turned over to the Italian government in 1947. Kappler was put on trial charged with murder and extortion against the Jewish community, related to two particular incidents in Rome.
Oct 11, 2013 · An obituary on Saturday about the former SS captain Erich Priebke misstated the year the Gestapo chief Herbert Kappler was smuggled out of prison. It was 1977, not 1997.
