[Lurking Libertarian]

Both may have very well have confessed and received absolution before death.

I don't know if Priebke repented at the moment of his death, but very shortly before he died, he wrote a letter (released by his lawyer after his death) in which he not only asserted his own innocence, he denied that the Holocaust had happened (he claimed that the crematoria at Auschwitz were actually ovens for feeding the prisoners).

[piusv]

Where is this letter?