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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...
Relatives of some of the victims had traveled to Germany from Italy to hear the verdict. "This is an important and just verdict for our families," said Angiola Lescai, who lost her grandfather in the barn that June day. "The massacre destroyed our family, and other families were also torn apart ... We think this is a gesture of reconciliation...
...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...
...murder of 27,900 Jews while he was a guard at the Nazi concentration camp Sobibor. No date has been set, but doctors confirmed recently that he's fit to stand trial. It remains to be seen how Demjanjuk's trial will be affected by Tuesday's verdict, which sends a clear signal that the consequences of Nazi crimes do not fade with the passage of time...
Scheungraber's lawyer has said he will appeal, dismissing the verdict as "scandalous." And that could take months. So for now, Scheungraber is going back to his home in Ottobrunn to await his fate...