MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A 90-year-old German World War Two officer, accused of ordering the killing 13 Italians in 1944, went on trial on Monday in what could prove one of the last cases of its kind.
Infantry commander Josef Scheungraber is accused of ordering the killing of 13 Italian civilians while serving in Tuscany in June 1944. The killing is believed to have been in retaliation for an attack by Italian partisans in which two German soldiers were killed.
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