27/10/2012 16:08
Three ex-Nazi soldiers life sentenced
Three ex-Nazi soldiers were handed life sentences on Friday by a military appeals court in Rome for their roles in the wartime deaths of roughly 400 civilians in Tuscany in 1944.
According to Italian media reports, the three were part of a group of nine former German officials who served in the Hermann Goering division, first convicted in July 2011. The men, now in their 90s, were sentenced to life for their roles in massacres that took place in the Spring of 1944, during which the soldiers planned and carried out the murder of women, children, and invalids.
The sentences were also for massacres carried out in other parts of the Emilia Romagna region and near Arezzo in Tuscany.