Word: stahlhelm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Condemned to die by the British in 1947 for the reprisal massacre of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome, he got the sentence commuted to life and then to 20 years. Freed because of ill health in 1952, Kesselring was well enough to become president of the Stahlhelm (Steel Helmet), a veterans' group whose militaristic ideal was expressed by their leader in his 1953 memoirs: "To revise our ideas in accordance with democratic principles. That is more than I can take...