A court in Germany has jailed a former German army commander for life for ordering the killing of Italian civilians in 1944.
The judge in the city of Munich convicted Josef Scheungraber for ordering the murder of 14 Italian civilians in retaliation for an attack by Italian partisans that killed two German soldiers. As a reprisal, German troops forced 11 Italians into a farmhouse before blowing it up. Four other Italians were shot dead in the street. In 2006 a court in Italy sentenced the German man in absentia to life imprisonment.
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