La Spezia, Italia - Ex-Nazi Convicted for 1944 War Crime

La Spezia, Italia - An Italian military tribunal convicted an 86-year-old former Nazi officer in absentia in the 1944 killings of 10 civilians.

Heinrich Nordhorn, who lives in Germany and didn't attend the war crimes trial in La Spezia, was sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in the hanging of 10 Italians in retaliation for attacks near Forli which had wounded two Germans, one of them fatally.