Germany filed against Italy at the International Court of Justice in The Hague in connection with the conflict over the payment of compensation for Nazi crimes committed during the Second World War. The Federal Republic accuses Italy that, contrary to the decision of the International Court of Justice of 2012, it allowed new compensation proceedings against Germany (at least 25 claims, 15 of them were decided in favor of the plaintiffs), Deutsche Welle reports. with reference to the press service of the court.

A decade ago, the United Nations High Court ruled in a lengthy litigation that Germany should not pay individual compensation to internees and other victims of Nazism in Italy. Thus, the International Court of Justice confirmed the principle of state immunity, according to which judgments given in Italy in favor of private plaintiffs are invalid.

The German government argues its position by the fact that the issues of compensation have already been settled within the framework of interstate agreements following the results of the Second World War. In 2008, Germany applied to the International Court of Justice to determine whether Italy's judgments, which oblige Germany to pay individual compensation, are compatible with international law.

These decisions apply to crimes committed between September 1943 and May 1945 during the Nazi occupation of Italy.

The judgments of the International Court of Justice are binding. At the same time, the UN Court does not have the tools to enforce its decisions.