Michael Seifert (16 March 1924 – 6 November 2010) was an SS guard in Italy during World War II.
Dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", Seifert, who was living in Canada, was convicted in absentia in 2000 by a military tribunal in Verona, Italy, on nine counts of murder, committed while he was an SS guard at the Bolzano Transit Camp, northern Italy.
[3] On 4 August 2007, he was ordered to be returned to jail while awaiting the outcome of his final appeals from the Supreme Court of Canada.
At his trial, witnesses accused him of leaving a 15-year-old boy to starve to death, raping and killing a pregnant woman, and gouging an inmate's eyes out.
[2] After his extradition to Italy from Canada, Seifert was held in an Italian military prison in Santa Maria Capua Vetere.