Nazi 'beast' extradited to Italy for a life in prison [View All]

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Source: Herald Sun

AN 83-year-old former SS prison guard sentenced to life in jail in Italy for committing Nazi war crimes has been handed to Italian police by Canada.

Michael Seifert was transferred to a military prison near Naples to begin serving his sentence.

Seifert, known as the Beast of Bolzano, was convicted in absentia in 2000 on nine counts of murder committed while he was an SS guard at a prison camp in Bolzano, northern Italy.

At his trial, witnesses testified that Seifert had starved a prisoner to death, gouged out someone's eyes and killed a woman and her daughter.

Seifert, a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian origin, acknowledged being a guard at the SS-run camp, but denied being involved in atrocities.

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