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MASSACRE On August 12 1944 , SS of 16. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Reichsführer SS rounded up 560 villagers and refugees - men, women, children - and shot, then burned them. The village was never rebuilt, and stands as a memorial. In Italy, the massacre was not publicly known until 1994 , when nearly 700 reports about it were accidentally found in a metal cabinet (named "cupboard of shame" by Italian media) in the basement of the Rome military court. TRIAL Until 2004 , no one had ever been prosecuted for the massacre. In July 2004 , a trial started before a Military Court in La Spezia against 10 former SS officers living in Germany . On June 22 , 2005 the ten former Nazi officers were found guilty of the massacre by an Italian military court and sentenced in absence to life imprisonment. The convicts are:
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