News that diaries naming German soldiers involved in reprisal killings in Cephalonia (as depicted in the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin) have emerged and that Italian authorities have opened new investigations into ex-soldiers that are still alive that were involved in the massacre must raise questions with many.
Whilst such incidents brings an abhorrence in my mind to embark on what will be a long legal trial costing many millions of euros against men that are now well in their 80's should also be given consideration. Yes, these guys deserved to be punished, but after all this time perhaps a public apology for their actions that were probably created by total "brain washing" by German authorities during war years; a look at their current life style, and their contribution to society in the years after the wars could be more productive.
The money that would have been spent on the war crime trials would be far more use allocated to current day charities giving aid to war and disaster victims. I bet many relatives of brave soldiers who died in such tragic circumstances in Cephalonia would see such aid as a fitting commemoration.
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