Ninety-year old Josef Scheungraber should spend the rest of his life in prison, his prosecutors said on Thursday. The former Nazi commander is charged with atrocities committed in Italy in World War II. This is one of the last cases of its kind.

Josef Scheungraber went on trial in September on charges of ordering killings in the Tuscan village of Falzano on June 26, 1944. His order came in retaliation for the killing of two German soldiers by Italian partisans. He has been convicted on 14 counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
 

At the time of the incident, the 26-year-old Scheungraber was the commander of mountain infantry battalion, Gebirgspionierbataillon 818. In an earlier trial in September 2006, he was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by an Italian military tribunal.
 

His men are alleged to have shot dead a 74-year-old woman and three men. They then forced 11 men aged between 15 and 66 into a farmhouse and blew up the building.
 

Only the youngest, Gino Massetti, survived, but with serious injuries. Six decades later, he testified during the Italian trial.
 

After the war, Scheungraber lived in Ottobrunn outside Munich, sitting on the town council and running a furniture shop. He went by his real name.
 

He regularly attended marches with fellow wartime veterans and recently received an award for municipal service. He has been out on bail during the trial.
 

The verdict is due on July 3.