Former Nazi officer acquitted over massacres in Slovakia

An 88-year-old man was today acquitted of murder in three Nazi massacres in Slovakia at the end of the Second World War.

Ladislav Niznansky showed no reaction as the verdict was announced at the Munich state court.

Presiding Judge Manfred Goetzl did not detail reasons for the acquittal on charges related to massacres in early 1945 after a failed uprising against Slovakia’s Nazi puppet government.