Germany ordered to compensate Marzabotto victims

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 21 - A Bologna judge on Tuesday ordered Germany to compensate the relatives of the estimated 770 victims of the Marzabotto massacre, the worst atrocity committed by SS troops in the Second World War.
    She said the Waffen SS troops had followed orders to "kill everyone and destroy everything".
    The Marzabotto massacre, or more correctly, the massacre of Monte Sole, was a World War II war crime consisting of the mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Nazi troops, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna. It was the largest massacre of civilians committed by the Waffen SS in western Europe during the war.
    It is also the deadliest mass shooting in the history of Italy.
    n January 2007, 10 of 17 suspected former SS members were found guilty in absentia by an Italian military tribunal in the north Italian town of La Spezia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment for the massacre. (ANSA).