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Italian court convicts 10 ex-SS members

2007-01-14

A military tribunal on Saturday convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS and acquitted seven others for the 1944 slaughter of more than 700 people near Bologna - the worst World War II-era civilian massacre in Italy, a news report said.

The 10 received life sentences, said the Italian news agency ANSA. The defendants, all tried in absentia, are believed to live in Germany. They are one former officer and 16 enlisted personnel of the 16th SS Division. The murder trial was held in a military court in the northern port town of La Spezia. Court officials in La Spezia could not immediately be reached Saturday afternoon.

Posted by:Fred

#6 Our enlisted don't get a pass even when they do follow the rules of engagement, so why should Krauts get a pass when he is ordered not to?

Posted by: badanov 2007-01-14 14:24

#5 Well, it is all well and good to put out a contract on individuals who committed war crimes, but spending 60 years tracking down somebody who was there but may or may not have actually done anything is a bit obsessive. The officer, maybe, but nine privates?

Unless they had developed some new evidence, waiting 60 years for a trial, in absentia, no less, just comes across as weird.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-14 13:13

#4 But they simply can't, the holocaust... it never really happened! ... right?

Posted by: Besoeker 2007-01-14 11:04

#3 There must have been a heck of a lot of them involved for there to still be 10 survivors, all at least in their 80s. My guess is that the entire unit was charged with the war crime.

The 16th was formed from ethnic Germans, but I've no idea what country the volksdeutsche came from, possibly Hungary. It surrendered to British forces in Austria.

The Russians, especially, put out wants and warrants on anyone who belonged to entire SS units, and not just einsatzgruppe, but Waffen SS as well.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-01-14 10:06

#2 I agree with Ship, so many worthy of the noose managed to slip away at the end of the war. Syria's most noted citizen, Alios Brunner is the one I want to see swing.
I hope the perpetrators of today's barbarisms are pursued as relentlessly.

Posted by: JerseyMike 2007-01-14 08:34

#1 Hang 'em.

Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-14 07:35

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