Saturday,
November 10, 2007
Spike Lee Distorts Italian Partisans in
"Miracle at St. Anna."
The
ANNOTICO Report
Spike
Lee is in Tuscany filming "Miracle
at St. Anna " a $45 million film, based on the
best-seller by black author James McBride that is based on what Italians refer
to as the German S.S. "Massacre
at Sant'Anna di Stazzema".
Interesting,
How one people's "Massacre" can be anothers
"Miracle" !!! ???
The
film follows four African-American Buffalo soldiers of the 92nd Infantry
Division who get trapped in a a small Tuscan village
on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign
of World War II. The film deals with the massacre of Sant'Anna
di Stazzema perpetrated by the Nazis in retaliation
to Italian partisan activity.
But, a
group of former Italian Partisan soldiers are taking aim at Spike Lee
for the way their former cause is being depicted in Lee's film.
They
claim "It is a false cinematic reconstruction of events that ignores the
real story and will leave an inaccurate impression,
The term 'cinematic license' should not mean that the truth can be
ignored."
Spike
Lee, who has never been a friend of the Italian American, with three movies
depicting them in a Negative manner, Do
the Right Thing, 1989,( Unfairly makes
the Italian Americans the SOLE Reason for racial tensions), Jungle Fever 1991,
(Again Unfairly makes Italian Americans bigots re Interracial Dating), Summer of Sam ,1999
(Unfairly makes the Italian American Victims of "Son of Sam"
-David Berkowitz into Bigots).
Keep
in mind that the "Buffalo Soldiers" (originally named for
Black Calvary units dating back to the 1970s and the Indian Wars, it became a
generic term for all African American soldiers) were unique in that very few
Black soldiers were permitted in combat units in WWII, most were in
service-oriented units, "behind the line" duties (cooks) Meanwhile,
There were an estimated 800,000 Italian Americans
Soldiers subject to combat duty!!!!!!!!
The
only Buffalo Soldiers in the entire US Military were the 24th and 25th
Infantry Regiments (Pacific), and the 92nd Infantry Division (the Italian
Campaign) The Tuskegee Airmen (992) also
served in
In early 1945,
after the
Oh yes, by the
way, Lee will harp on why a "few" Black soldiers should fight for the
US when "they" suffer discrimination, ignoring completely that
"discrimination" is keeping them mostly out of the line of
fire, and out of the cemetery.
Should someone
remind him that while 800,000 Italian Americans were subject to combat in the
US Military , that 600,000 of their Mothers, Fathers, Aunts, Uncles,
Grandparents were "Treated' as Enemy Aliens, with Internment, Relocations,
Confiscation, Curfews, etc !!!!
Now also consider, Italian Partisan membership grew from
some 20,000 in May of 1944 to 200,000 by April of 1945. The partisans
engaged in Ambushes, Sabotage, and "AntiScorch"
(Preventing Germans from blowing up Infrastructure as they retreated) By
April 21, 1945, the partisans attacked in an organized sweep, and took control
of all towns and cities not yet reached by the Allies. Over 35,000 Partisans
died by the time
This
does not even address the exploits of the retrained and re equipped Italian
army consisting of 100,000 men that were fighting the Germans with the
Allies, by May of 1944.
http://www.comandosupremo.com/19441945.html
Spike
Lee needs a "wake up call" !!!!!!!!
Nov 7,
2007
The $45 million film, based on the best-seller by James McBride, is set in the
Tuscan countryside during World War II.
The film will tell the story of a group of black soldiers caught between enemy
lines who come upon a town of partisans -- Italians who fought against
Mussolini's Fascists and their Nazi allies -- seeking to find a traitor in
their midst. Filming started Oct. 15.
The film also will include a recounting of what Italians refer to as the
"St. Anna Massacre," in which 560 civilians -- women, children and
elderly men -- were slaughtered and then burned by German troops in retaliation
for partisan activities.
The veterans accuse Lee of changing history to suit hi s story, and they have
demanded that that part of the story be removed or changed.
"It is a false cinematic reconstruction of events that ignores the real
story and will leave an inaccurate impression," partisan veterans Moreno
Costa, Enio Mancini and Giovanni Cipollini
said in a statement released Tuesday. "The term 'cinematic license' should
not mean that the truth can be ignored."
The three veterans did not say how many other former soldiers they represented.
Messages left with Lee's temporary Tuscan offices were not returned.
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