Republic recognizes its roots in Stazzema says president

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 12 - Sant'Anna di Stazzema is a "European memorial of pain, a symbol of redemption of that human and civic renaissance that knew how to oppose barbarism, generating democracy, freedom, peace, where the intention was to cancel any hope", President Sergio Mattarella said on Monday of the 80th anniversary of the World War II Nazi massacre in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, when 560 unarmed people including 130 children were murdered. "To the descendants and the people of Stazzema, who renew today the pain of their community for the massacre of their loved ones, goes the moved sentiment of the entire Nation.
    "A great moral inheritance was left by survivors.
    "The Republic can recognize its roots here", noted Mattarella.
    The August 12, 1944, massacre in Sant'Anna di Stazzema was the second worst WWII Nazi atrocity in Italy after the September 1944 Marzabotto massacre which killed over 770 people. (ANSA).