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Nazi soldiers sentenced for Italy massacre

Rome - Sentencing in Nazi trial
Rome - Sentencing in Nazi trial

A military court in Italy has convicted ten former Nazi SS officers and soldiers over the massacre of 955 people in northern Italy during World War II.

They were sentenced to life imprisonment in their absence.

One witness, who was 13 years old at the time of the massacre, told the court that the Nazis threw newborn babies in the air and killed them with submachine guns.

Those convicted are now all in their 80s and are believed to be living in Germany.

The massacre in the town of Morzabotto and two nearby villages was the worst in the war on Italian soil.