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Eighty years later, some relatives of those executed by the Nazis in Fornelli, Italy, have finally received 12 million euros ($13 million) in compensation.
The first to receive compensation from the newly created government fund were the descendants of six Catholics from Fornelli, who were hanged as German soldiers played music on a gramophone stolen from a nearby house in October 1943 after Italy signed an armistice with the Allies and renounced Nazi Germany.
According to Reuters, all the family members of the victims are dead, but under Italian law, the compensation money goes to the heirs. Italy, not Germany, will have to pay the compensation because Italy lost a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice calling for Germany to be legally responsible for damages related to crimes and atrocities during World War II.
A study funded by the German government and published in 2016 estimated that 22,000 Italians were victims of Nazi war crimes, including up to 8,000 Italian Jews who were deported to death camps.
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