Italy indicts alleged ex-Nazis on massacre charges

An Italian court today indicted three alleged former members of the Nazi SS on charges of having carried out a 1944 massacre of 560 people in the Italian village of Sant’Anna di Stazzema.

Italy’s ANSA news agency said indictments were issued against Gerhard Sommer, 83, Alfred Schonenberg, 83, and Ludwig Sonntag, 80, all alleged to be former members of an SS Panzergrenadier Division.