Germany takes Italy to UN tribunal, that's why

Germany has filed a case against Italy at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on war damages in connection with World War II, The Hague-based UN tribunal said, Euronews reported.

The document referred to a 2012 decision by the UN tribunal stipulating that civil claims by Nazi victims could not be raised against Germany in foreign courts.

Italy's Supreme Court had judged in 2008 that an Italian civilian had the right to pay off after his expulsion to Germany in 1944 to work as a slave. The JND decided that Italy should ensure that its court decisions that violate German immunity cease to effect.

But in the new file, Germany claims some new cases have been filed against the country in Italian courts seeking compensation in connection with Nazi war crimes during World War II.

Germany has asked the court to ask Italy to ensure that its courts “no longer apply civil indictments filed against Germany based on the violations of international humanitarian law committed by the German Reich between 1943 and 1945”.

Germany also accused Italy of taking over or threatening German state property in Italy.

Berlin had argued in the case of 2012 that the Italian decision questioned a system of return to power following the defeat of Germany's Nazis to pay tens of billions of reparations since the 1950 ' s.

The International Court of Justice is the UN's main judicial body established in 1945.