Karl Hass
German SS officer & war criminal (1912-2004) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the classical music radio host, see Karl Haas.
For the German musicologist and conductor, see Karl Haas (conductor).
Karl Hass (5 October 1912 – 21 April 2004) was an SS Hauptsturmführer and German spy who helped deport more than 1,000 Italian Jews to Auschwitz. A perpetrator in the Ardeatine massacre, in which 335 civilians were murdered, he was tried and convicted in Italy in 1998. He spent the last years of his life under limited house arrest in "the splendour of the beautiful Swiss Alps".[1]