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Sixty-five years after 11 men were massacred in the central Italian village of Falzano Di Cortona, a German court convicted former Nazi soldier Josef Scheungraber of ordering the killings and sentenced him to life in prison. Scheungraber, 90, looked frail but alert as the verdict was read out in the Munich courthouse on Aug. 11, at the close of one of Germany's last Nazi war-crimes trials...
...year-old German army officer based in Italy. According to the court, after Italian partisans killed two German soldiers, a mountain infantry battalion set out on a brutal revenge operation with Scheungraber in command. The worst atrocity took place at a farm in the Tuscan village of Falzano Di Cortona in June 1944. The court said Scheungraber ordered his soldiers to round up 11 Italian men, who were herded into a barn and locked inside. The Germans then blew up the barn, leaving only one survivor, a 15-year-old boy named Gino Massetti who gave evidence at the trial...
While he expresses particular interest in Latin America and Asia, given LACMA'S West Coast location, the museum has also recently made important acquisitions of work by such masters as 17th century painter Pietro da Cortona, early 20th century artist George Bellows and contemporary sculptor Richard Serra. Govan's notion of collecting iconic houses by such architects as R.M. Schindler, Richard Neutra and Frank Gehry remains under discussion, but Govan concedes it may not be realistic to expect such big-ticket donations. He seeks to preserve them, he says, but indicates as much interest in initiating the idea...