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.
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