Stock Photo - 25 August 2019, Italy, Fivizzano: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and President Sergio Mattarella of the Swiss Confederation will walk through the town after a wreath-laying ceremony at the commemorative plaque for the victims of the Fivizzano massacres and welcome visitors. In the final phase of the Second World War, Wehrmacht soldiers and SS murdered several thousand civilians in Italy. 75 years ago, in the region around Fivizzano in northern Tuscany alone, almost 400 men, women, old people and children were murdered by the Germans, often in an unimaginably cruel way, in a massacre lasting several days. Federal President Steinmeier and his wife take part in the annual commemoration ceremony for the victims of the massacre. Photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa. - Fivizzano/Massa-Carrara/Italy