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ROME - A military tribunal on Saturday convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS in the 1944 slaughter of more than 700 people near Bologna — the worst civilian massacre in Italy during World War II, news reports said. The 10 received life sentences for murder, while seven others were acquitted, the Italian news agency ANSA and state-run RAI television said. But none of the men was in custody. They were tried in absentia, and all are believed to be living in Germany. The defendants, one former officer and 16 enlisted personnel of the 16th SS Division, were tried...

ROME (AP) - An Italian prosecutor asked a military judge Thursday to sentence 10 former members of the Nazi SS to life in prison for their alleged role in a 1944 massacre in northern Italy, a defense lawyer said. Prosecutor Marco De Paolis made the request during closing arguments at the trial in La Spezia, a city on the country's west coast, said Luigi Trucco, a lawyer for one of the defendants. The defendants are being tried in absentia and are believed to be in Germany, he said. The next hearings were scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday when a prosecutor...

P.J. Hogan's HeroesGraphic credit: Maryland Tyranny Response Team Distributor of 'Nazi' flier urged to resign county posts by Eric Fingerhut Staff Writer Local Jewish organizations are calling on a Bethesda man who distributed a flier depicting three members of the Maryland General Assembly as Nazis to resign from two Montgomery County public positions. Montgomery County Executive Douglas Duncan has initiated proceedings to remove him from one of those posts, but Augustus Alzona says he has no intention of leaving either position. Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington and American Jewish Committee Washington chapter leaders say that Alzona is not fit...