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.
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