On 22 June 2005 , Sommer and nine other former SS members were convicted by an Italian military court in La Spezia for the " continued murder with special cruelty " of 560 villagers at Sant ' Anna di Stazzema . All ten were sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay compensation payments . Sommer and four of his comrades appealed , but the sentences were confirmed in 2006 by a military court in Rome
continued murder with special cruelty
Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
Gerhard Sommer