The German Military Occupation of Italy and the War against Civilians

Bibliographic Data

ID18974993
AuthorsPaolo Pezzino (corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume12
Issue2
Pages173-188
Publication date2007-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern Italy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1353-2944 • E-ISSN: 1469-9877
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/13532940701362714
OpenAlexW1970060216
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The article presents the results of a research group which has, over the last few years, carried out a careful contextualization of the massacres of civilians in four Italian regions (Apulia, Campania, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna) during World War II. The research enables us to go beyond references to the irrationality of evil, the unchangeable core of violence in human nature or terror as an end in itself, which do not contribute much to an analytical interpretation. The aim has been to place these massacres in a more precise historical context by reconstructing the power structures, the logic and the cultural conditioning which made them possible, the behaviour and aims of the various protagonists, the complex evolution of the survivors’ memories and the ways in which the community memory has been taken up, or expelled, by the anti-Fascist paradigm of Republican Italy

Archaeology · Contextualization · German · Irrationality · Political science · Rationality · Sociology · European history and politics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy

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