Memory and Massacre [electronic resource] : Revisiting Sant' Anna di Stazzema /
Pezzino, P.author.
This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the massacre.
Cover; Memory and Massacre: Revisiting Sant'Anna di Stazzema; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Maps; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; The Study of the Massacres in Italy; The War Waged against Civilians; Tuscany; Sant'Anna di Stazzema; Chapter 1: The Massacre; The Place; Sant'Anna di Stazzema, August 12, 1944; The Victims; Chapter 2: Investigation of the Massacre; After the Massacre: The Absence of Justice and the Search for the Reason Why; A Random Massacre?; Only Germans?; The Accusations against the Partisans; Chapter 3: Fighting the Armed Bands, the War against Civilians
The PartisansThe Unification of the Formations; Partisan Actions; The Sixteenth SS Grenadier Armored Division; A Crescendo of Terror; Sant'Anna di Stazzema, August 12, 1944; Conclusions: Judicial Truth and Historical Truth; Appendix: "Experts in Truth?": The Politics of Retribution in Italy and the Role of Historians; Introduction; Historians and Trials; My Experiences; Responsibility: A Difficult Principle to Apply; Historian and Judge; Notes; References; Index
Originally published in Italian: Bologna : Il mulino, c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the massacre.
Waffen-SS. SS-Freiwilligen-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS," 16.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Italy-History.
Military history.
World War, 1939-1945.
European History.
Modern History.
History of Italy.
History of Military.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.