The last two surviving German war soldiers definitively sentenced to life imprisonment for the indiscriminate killing of Italian soldiers and civilians are dead: as confirmed to ANSA by the military attorney general Marco De Paolis, the centenary Karl Wilhelm Stark, accused of various massacres committed in 1944 in various places in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and of Alfred Stork (97), held responsible for one of the massacres that took place on the island of Kefalonia in September 1943 against the soldiers of the Acqui Division.
Neither has ever served a day in prison or home detention.