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Head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II and he was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre. Joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1931 at the age of twenty three. At the same time, he became a stormtrooper in the Sturmabteilung (SA) and served as an SA-Mann from August 1, 1931 to December 1, 1932. Following the collapse of the SA, Kappler joined the SS Gestapo. He worked as the Gestapo chief in Rome during the Nazis attempt to keep Benito Mussolini in power and was known for deporting Jews to the death camps, crush any Italian resistance against the Third Reich, and for trying to assassinate Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty (a Roman Catholic priest helping save Jews and Allied POW's from the Nazis). Captured by the British in 1945. In 1947, Kappler was tried by an Italian military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment in the military prison of Gaeta. Kappler and his first wife divorced while Kappler was serving his sentence, but he was married again to Anneliese Kappler, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding ceremony in 1972. By this time Kappler had also converted to Catholicism, partly under the influence of his war-time opponent, the Vatican diplomat Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty, who had often visited Kappler in prison, discussing literature and religion with him. Portrayed by Richard Burton in "Massacre in Rome" (1973) and Christopher Plummer in "The Scarlet and the Black" (1983 TV). Herbert Kappler passed away in 1978 after Anneliese broke him out of prison when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Bio by: Jay Lance)
Head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II and he was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre. Joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1931 at the age of twenty three. At the same time, he became a stormtrooper in the Sturmabteilung (SA) and served as an SA-Mann from August 1, 1931 to December 1, 1932. Following the collapse of the SA, Kappler joined the SS Gestapo. He worked as the Gestapo chief in Rome during the Nazis attempt to keep Benito Mussolini in power and was known for deporting Jews to the death camps, crush any Italian resistance against the Third Reich, and for trying to assassinate Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty (a Roman Catholic priest helping save Jews and Allied POW's from the Nazis). Captured by the British in 1945. In 1947, Kappler was tried by an Italian military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment in the military prison of Gaeta. Kappler and his first wife divorced while Kappler was serving his sentence, but he was married again to Anneliese Kappler, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding ceremony in 1972. By this time Kappler had also converted to Catholicism, partly under the influence of his war-time opponent, the Vatican diplomat Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty, who had often visited Kappler in prison, discussing literature and religion with him. Portrayed by Richard Burton in "Massacre in Rome" (1973) and Christopher Plummer in "The Scarlet and the Black" (1983 TV). Herbert Kappler passed away in 1978 after Anneliese broke him out of prison when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Bio by: Jay Lance)
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Head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II and he was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre. Joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1931 at the age of twenty three. At the same time, he became a stormtrooper in the Sturmabteilung (SA) and served as an SA-Mann from August 1, 1931 to December 1, 1932. Following the collapse of the SA, Kappler joined the SS Gestapo. He worked as the Gestapo chief in Rome during the Nazis attempt to keep Benito Mussolini in power and was known for deporting Jews to the death camps, crush any Italian resistance against the Third Reich, and for trying to assassinate Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty (a Roman Catholic priest helping save Jews and Allied POW's from the Nazis). Captured by the British in 1945. In 1947, Kappler was tried by an Italian military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment in the military prison of Gaeta. Kappler and his first wife divorced while Kappler was serving his sentence, but he was married again to Anneliese Kappler, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding ceremony in 1972. By this time Kappler had also converted to Catholicism, partly under the influence of his war-time opponent, the Vatican diplomat Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty, who had often visited Kappler in prison, discussing literature and religion with him. Portrayed by Richard Burton in "Massacre in Rome" (1973) and Christopher Plummer in "The Scarlet and the Black" (1983 TV). Herbert Kappler passed away in 1978 after Anneliese broke him out of prison when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Bio by: Jay Lance)
Head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II and he was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre. Joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1931 at the age of twenty three. At the same time, he became a stormtrooper in the Sturmabteilung (SA) and served as an SA-Mann from August 1, 1931 to December 1, 1932. Following the collapse of the SA, Kappler joined the SS Gestapo. He worked as the Gestapo chief in Rome during the Nazis attempt to keep Benito Mussolini in power and was known for deporting Jews to the death camps, crush any Italian resistance against the Third Reich, and for trying to assassinate Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty (a Roman Catholic priest helping save Jews and Allied POW's from the Nazis). Captured by the British in 1945. In 1947, Kappler was tried by an Italian military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment in the military prison of Gaeta. Kappler and his first wife divorced while Kappler was serving his sentence, but he was married again to Anneliese Kappler, a nurse who had carried on a lengthy correspondence with Kappler before marrying him in a prison wedding ceremony in 1972. By this time Kappler had also converted to Catholicism, partly under the influence of his war-time opponent, the Vatican diplomat Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty, who had often visited Kappler in prison, discussing literature and religion with him. Portrayed by Richard Burton in "Massacre in Rome" (1973) and Christopher Plummer in "The Scarlet and the Black" (1983 TV). Herbert Kappler passed away in 1978 after Anneliese broke him out of prison when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Bio by: Jay Lance)
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