Slovak Ladislav Niznansky, 88, awaits his verdict in a Munich courtroom December 19, 2005. A German court on Monday acquitted an 88-year-old Slovak man of a 1945 massacre at the end of what may be Europe's last major trial for Nazi atrocities committed during World War Two. Niznansky was charged with ordering the shooting of 146 civilians in Slovakia in January 1945 and the execution of 18 [Jews] found hiding a month later as a member of a Slovak division of Nazi collaborators.