Two members of the division , Lieutnant Wolfgang Lehnigk-Emden and NCO Kurt Schuster were sentenced to life in prison in absentia by an Italian court for their role in the Caiazzo massacre , the murder of twenty-two civilians at Caiazzo , near Naples , in October 1943 but not extradited . Lehnigk-Emden was captured by Allied forces during the war , confessed the crime but then released by accident . He was found guilty of manslaughter by the '' Bundesgerichtshof '' , Germany 's highest court but released because of the Statute of limitations had expired . This caused considerable outrage in both Germany and Italy because of the particularly brutal nature of the crime , and was seen as a Miscarriage of justice
Caiazzo massacre
Caiazzo massacre
3rd Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)