num_pages: 344
description: Winner of the 2005 Oral History Association Book Award On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Alessandro Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society.
language: English
title: The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
titlecomplete: The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome
genres: History, World War II, Italy, European History, Nonfiction, Oral History
ratings_count: 107
series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Oral History Association Book Award
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan