A Nazi officer accused of rounding up Jews in Italy during World War II and helping to massacre more than 300 civilians in caves near Rome is living in Argentina, a Jewish group says.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles is asking Germany to reopen the case of SS Capt. Erich Priebke, said Rabbi Marvin Hier.The trail leading to Priebke started at the Vatican after the war, where a man working for a German bishop helped smuggle former Nazis to South America in an operation dubbed the "Rat Line," Hier said.

That man, a German named Reinhard Kops, was located last year in Argentina by the Wie-sen-thal Center.

When the ABC News show "Prime Time Live" went to Argentina last month to do a story on former Nazis living in South America, the center told them about Kops. ABC confronted him on the street near his home with evidence provided by the center, and Kops admitted his wartime activities.

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He also fingered Priebke, now in his 70s, who lives nearby.

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