German veteran, 90, jailed for Nazi war crimes...

A 90-year-old German former army officer was today found guilty of ordering the executions of 11 Italian villagers during the second world war, in one of Germany's last Nazi war crimes trials.

Josef Scheungraber was sentenced to life in prison for 10 counts of murder and one of attempted murder over the June 1944 killings in Falzano di Cortona, near the Tuscan town of Arezzo.

As a 25-year-old Wehrmacht lieutenant, Scheungraber ordered 11 civilians to be herded into a barn that was blown up as punishment for an attack by Italian partisans which killed two German soldiers, the Munich state court ruled. Only one person, a teenage boy, survived. More...

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