3 Former SS Officers to Be Tried in Italy

ROME, Jan. 12 (Reuters) — An Italian investigator said Monday that Italy would bring three former Nazi SS officers to trial in the massacre of hundreds of civilians in a Tuscan village 60 years ago.

The investigator, who declined to be identified, said Gerhard Sommer, Alfred Schonenberg and Ludwig Sonntag — all in their 80's and living in Germany — were accused of taking part in the killings in the village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema.

About 560 people, including women, children and elderly people, were executed at dawn on Aug. 12, 1944, in a wartime atrocity that has been characterized as an act of revenge for Italian partisans resisting German occupation during World War II. ...

The trial is scheduled to start in the northwest coastal town of La Spezia on April 20. ...

More:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/international/europe/13NAZI.html

(April 20th? If memory serves, that's Hitler's birthday.)

If they are guilty, then let the chips fall, as they say...

He already has hired James A. Baker III and Frank Luntz, he needs to round out the Bush campaign coup-planning/dirty tricks staff.

Lori Price