10 ex-Nazis convicted of murder
A military tribunal convicted 10 former members of the Nazi SS in the 1944 slaughter of more than 700 people near Bologna, news reports said.
The 10 received life sentences for murder, the Italian news agency ANSA and state-run RAI television said.
The men were tried in absentia, and all are believed to be living in Germany.
The defendants, who were members of the 16th SS Division, were tried in a military court in the northern port town of La Spezia.
Court officials in La Spezia could not be reached to comment on the reports.
The massacre occurred around Marzabotto, a mountain town south of Bologna, during a retreat by German troops. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, 1944, SS soldiers killed hundreds of people -- mostly children, women and elderly -- in what was ostensibly a hunt for resistance fighters.
After the war, two leaders of the SS division were convicted of the killings in Italy, but investigations of lower-ranking soldiers languished for decades.
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