Former Nazi guard imprisoned
Extradited from Canada, an 83-year-old former Nazi prison guard, who witnesses say laughed as he tortured inmates in an Italian detention camp, was jailed near Naples to begin serving a life sentence for war crimes.
A military tribunal in Verona had put the Ukrainian-born Michael Seifert on trial in absentia and convicted him in 2000 of nine counts of murder committed while he was an SS guard at a prison transit camp in Bolzano.
He has acknowledged being a guard at the SS-run camp but denies being involved in atrocities. Seifert had lived in Canada since 1951.
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