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...dedicate part of their pasture to geese and to feed them the highest quality organic corn. There was only one problem: in his enthusiasm, Barber had somehow missed the importance of letting the birds forage for their own food. Accustomed to a steady supply of grain, Stone Barns' trial geese had no need to gorge themselves once the weather turned chilly. "They were delicious," recalls Barber. "But their livers were the size of Ping-Pong balls." It was time to call in the Goose Whisperer himself...
...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. (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...
Scheungraber denies the allegations that he ordered the killings, saying he was rebuilding a nearby bridge at the time. But at the end of an 11-month trial, the court handed down a life sentence, convicting him of 10 counts of murder and one of attempted murder. "This was about revenge," said Judge Manfred Goetzl, adding that Scheungraber was the only officer present at the time of the killings. "He wasn't someone who allowed an important matter to be taken out of his hands...
...town council and even won a medal for outstanding citizenship. In 2006 he was sentenced in absentia to life in prison by an Italian military tribunal, but he wasn't deported and never served any time. After German prosecutors got onto the case, Scheungraber went on trial in Munich in September 2008. "The past caught up with the defendant," said prosecutor Hans-Joachim Lutz after the verdict was delivered on Tuesday. "He will have to atone for his guilt...
...trial was highly challenging for German prosecutors, who struggled to find proof of Scheungraber's involvement in the Italian barn massacre. Given that more than six decades had elapsed, prosecutors had trouble finding living witnesses, and the few witnesses they could find had only sketchy memories of that time. Ultimately, much of the case against Scheungraber was built on documentary evidence and expert-witness statements. (See pictures of Kristallnacht...