 In March 1944, 15 U.S. soldiers of Italian descent were captured by German forces nearby after the failure of the infrastructure-sabatoge mission Operation Ginny II.On March 26, they were summarily executed in Ameglia in violation of the Geneva Convention's rules regarding treatment of prisoners of war.After the war, the Wehrmacht general who ordered the executions, Anton Dostler, was tried and executed for war crimes, the first German general so tried.