Sunday,
January 14, 2007
The
ANNOTICO Report
During
WWII there were more than 200 Massacres by Nazi with 20,000 Italian
Civilians victims.
The
worst was Marzabotto with a range of 700-1800
Italian Victims. Other of the more prominent Massacres were at Sant'Anna di Stazzema with 560
Italian victims, and the
BBC News
Saturday, 13 January 2007
Italy has sentenced 10
former members of the Nazi SS to life imprisonment for their role in the worst
World War II massacre on Italian soil, reports say.
The defendants, all in their 80s and believed
to live in
Several hundred people were killed in 1944
around the town of
Most of those who died were women, children
and the elderly.
"This judgment has been reached in the
name of the Italian people and in accordance with the law after a very
difficult trial," the head of the military court, Vincenzo Santoro, was
quoted as saying.
Reprisal
Italian media said the 10 were also ordered
to pay about 100m euros ($129m) in damages to the few survivors and relatives
of the victims.
Seven other defendants are reported to have
been acquitted.
Marzabotto was the worst massacre of civilians committed in
Between 29 September and 5 October, 1944,
retreating Nazi troops carrying out reprisals for the local support given to
resistance fighters killed civilians around Marzabotto,
a mountainous area south of
The number of those killed in Marzabotto is put at more than 700, and some records say as
many as 1,800 were killed by the SS forces as they swept the area in pursuit of
partisans.
In 2002, then-German President Johannes Rau
went to Marzabotto and expressed his country's
"profound sorrow" and "shame" for the massacre.
In 2005, an Italian court convicted 10 former
SS officers in absentia for a massacre in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
Some 560 civilians were killed in the August
1944 massacre. The trials and convictions of the former Nazis, most of them
living in
Those convicted are unlikely to go to prison,
given their age and the length of time needed for extradition.
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