Today in the Herald Tribune:

“A bitter blood feud between two rival southern Italian crime families erupted on the streets of a northern German city early Wednesday morning, as the police in Duisburg found the bodies of five Italian men in two parked cars.
A sixth victim died as he was being taken to a hospital. The police said that the victims, ages 16 to 39, had all been shot in the head outside an Italian pizzeria near the main train station of Duisburg.
Giuliano Amato, the Italian interior minister, said that the killings appeared to stem from rivalry between two families that belong to 'Ndrangheta, a mob organization from the Italian region of Calabria. The Italian authorities now regard 'Ndrangheta as a more sinister threat than the mafia in Sicily.
Amato told reporters in Rome that one of the victims may have been involved in an earlier killing. He warned of an escalating mob war, saying that officials would need to be attentive that there was "not a third act in Calabria."
The slayings stunned Duisburg, a sooty industrial city on the Rhine that has long attracted Italian immigrants, who came by the thousands after World War II to work in the city's factories and steel mills.”

I do have a weak spot for Italian restaurants in Germany, especially for Italian restaurants in Bavaria.
A woman in the southwestern part of Germany told me that in the fifties an Italian village emigrated in its totality to Germany.
This is a solution for homesickness.