(ANSA) - Rome June 15 - The Nazi army and Italian Fascist
forces from the Republic of Salò carried out more than 3,000
acts of violence against Italian civilians during World War II
in addition to notorious atrocities such as the Sant'Anna di
Stazzema massacre, a study financed by the German government
disclosed Monday.
A study by 100 historical researchers that will become an
online archive and a book entitled The Atlas of Nazi-Fascist
Massacres has documented thousands of episodes of round-ups,
reprisals, individual executions, and ethnic and gender violence
against civilians and unarmed partisans.
The list was compiled by the National Association of
Italian Partisans (ANPI) and the National Institute for the
History of Liberation Movements (INSMLI), using Wehrmacht and SS
archives and Italian as well as German sources.
"The crimes committed by German soldiers against civilians
during the war are the darkest chapter of Italian-German
relations and fills Germans with shame and pain," said
Ambassador Reinhard Schafers.
"There is the danger of a progressive loss of memory among
the generations who did not live through the war, and it is
particularly important that its history remain comprehensible to
them as well."
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