Germany filed an application on Friday to initiate International Court of Justice (ICJ) proceedings against Italy for continuing to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from Germany even after an earlier ruling that such claims violate the law. international. In its application, Germany stated: Italian domestic courts have in the past ignored Germany’s jurisdictional immunity as a sovereign state by allowing civil suits to be brought against Germany based on violations of international humanitarian law committed by the German Reich during World War II. . In its request, Germany referenced a 2012 ICJ decision that Italy could...