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Memory and Massacre

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137011114

ISBN: 978-1-349-34349-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 13, 2015

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Introduction

Pezzino, Paolo

Pages: 1 –15

[The interest shown by Italian historians in the massacres of civilians by German soldiers during World War II is the result, not only of incidental circumstances (the 50th anniversary, in 1994, of these episodes and the two trials against Erich Priebke in 1996–1997 for the massacre of the...
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The Massacre

Pezzino, Paolo

Pages: 17 –58

[Sant’Anna di Stazzema: a handful of houses scattered here and there on a hillside amphitheatre with a view of the sea, at an altitude ranging from 600 to 800 meters. Strictly speaking, there isn’t a village, there isn’t a square, apart from the open space in front of the church, near the school...
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Investigation of the Massacre

Pezzino, Paolo

Pages: 59 –87

[After the massacre, in spite of its enormity, there was no serious attempt on the part of the institutions to prosecute the perpetrators, nor even to reconstruct what had happened. The village practically did not exist anymore, its already poor subsistence economy was destroyed, its families...
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Fighting the Armed Bands, the War against Civilians

Pezzino, Paolo

Pages: 89 –124

[The start of the Resistance in this area, as in others, was difficult. Small groups of anti-Fascists and disbanded soldiers of the former army found themselves in inaccessible zones, making contact with the anti-Fascists who had remained in the villages and trying to organize some sort of...
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Conclusions Judicial Truth and Historical Truth

Pezzino, Paolo

Pages: 125 –130

[Let us, in conclusion, return to the controversies about Spike Lee’s film, from which I started. I do not here intend, for lack of space, to enter into the merits of the debate about the film. Succinctly, I maintain that every artist should be free to rework, and also literally to invent, or to...

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