A Nazi commander will die in prison after a German court sentenced him to life for his role in the murder of 10 Italians in Tuscany in 1944.
A Munich state court found 90-year-old Josef Scheungraber guilty of ordering the killings, in what was one of the last Nazi crimes trials in Germany.
Scheungraber had previously been sentenced in absentia by an Italian military court to life in prison.
Scheungraber denied the charges, saying he handed the victims to the military police and did not know what happened to them.
Although a sentence of "Life" may seem appropriate (and would have been in the 1940s), his being 90 years old means it will likely be a very short term in prison.
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