Title: Tra rimozione e oblio
Description: During the Second World War, civilians became the main protagonists of a conflict that many historians have dubbed 'total' because of its geographical extent, the economic resources deployed, the opposing ideologies, but also and above all because of the high number of victims among soldiers and civilian populations. It was precisely the latter who paid the highest price. Apart from Nuremberg and Tokyo, there were few trials and even fewer convictions in the aftermath of the conflict. Many heinous crimes suffered by civilians were suppressed, excluded even from the historical and public narrative of the post-war states. Italy was no exception, indeed here more than anywhere else a policy of memory was implemented aimed at severing ties with the past without coming to terms with it.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Historiography, Collective memory, Atrocities
Places: Italy, Germany, France, England, USA, Albania, Ethiopia, Lybia, Eritrea, Rome, Nuremberg, Tokyo, Esperia, Ciociaria, Lazio (Italy), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), URSS, Yugoslavia
People: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956), Vittorio Emanuele III, Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Winston Churchill Sir (1874-1965), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), Omar al-Mukhtār, Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944-), Alcide De Gasperi (1881-1954), Mark W. Clark (1896-1984), Arthur Harold Alexander (1902-1983), Erich Priebke (1913-2013), Angelo Del Boca (1925-), Giulio Douhet (1869-1930), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Mario Fiorentini, Bernard Cyril Freyberg Freyberg Baron (1889-1963), Franco Giustolisi, Rodolfo Graziani (1882-1955), Alphonse Juin (1888-1967), Herbert Kappler (1907-1978), Spike Lee, Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957), George S. Patton (1885-1945), Pietro Quaroni, Maria Maddalena Rossi, Haile Selassie I Emperor of Ethiopia (1892-1975), Tiziano Tessitori (1895-), Tommaso Baris, Luca Baldissara, Angelo Del Boca, Gabriella Gribaudi, Giovanni Contini, Gabriele Scarparo, Norman Lewis (1909-1979), Nicola Labanca, Augustin Guillaume, Albert Kesselring (1885-1960), Lutz Klinkhammer, Giorgio Napolitano, Raoul Pupo, Walter Reder, Mario Roatta (1887-), Paolo Pezzino, Dario Zanini, Alessandro Portelli, Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980)
Time periods: 1939-1945, Imperialism, World War, 1939-1945, World War II