Nine former SS men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Rome military court on Saturday for allegedly massacring more than 350 civilians in Tuscany in 1944, as the Nazis fled from the advancing Allies.
The nine men are all aged between 84 and 90, and they are therefore unlikely to serve their sentences. A tenth defendant was acquitted and another died during the trial.
In cases of other elderly so-called Nazi criminals, Italy has not enforced their punishments.
Nevertheless, Claudio Martini, the president of the region of Tuscany, expressed his satisfaction with the sentencing.
“This sentence finally brings justice and truth for those who suffered Nazi atrocities in person,” Martini was quoted as saying by Reuters. “We were not motivated by revenge, but the need to write a word of truth on this terrible page of history.”
The Rome court also ordered Germany to pay 1.25 million euros in damages to the towns where the massacres took place and to some 50 of the victims’ relatives.
The victims, including many women and children, were rounded up by Nazi troops ostensibly on the hunt for partisans and shot in separate killings that occurred in the area around the Tuscan town of Fivizzano in August 1944.
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I’m sick and tired to hear about the ‘forever-presecuted-ones’ complainings about Nazis.
They deported John Demjanjuk just 1 month ago from the jewSA back to Marxist Germany where he faces lifetime jail sentence, despite the fact that he was acquitted even by an ISRAELI court years ago from any crime. SHAME ON YOU \democratic\ USA! If we look back the history of judeo-bolsehvist war-crimes against Humanity, more jews could be sentenced for atrocites and war-crimes than Germans. Communism is 100% pure talmudic hate! One thing is sure: if Hitler would gassed all jews as they claim, we would be better off today!