Italy seeks German ex-soldier over 'Captain Corelli' massacre: report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Lanz was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment .... a comparatively light sentence compared with other commanders involved with operations in the Balkans ..... however after only three years - on 3 February 1951 - he was released .... to date - he is the only person to have served a prison sentence for the atrocities committed in Epirus or the Ionian islands. He died in Munich in 1982.