Thursday,
June 05, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
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is extensive data on the use of Italian slave laborers by the Nazis.
After the fall of Mussolini, there was a wave of revenge against the Italians. Italians
who were already in Germany were turned into
slaves. Between September of 1943 and April of 1944 a minimum of 23,000
Italians, many former soldiers, were deported to
Incidently, The Germans shipped the contents of entire
Italian factories north since their invasion of
Trains with over 9000 Jews from
Germany
Must Pay 'Hitler's slaves'
WWII deportees are entitled
to sue, high court rules
ANSA,
June 4, 2008
The
The high court came to the same conclusion in 2004 but
The
About 50 former deportees, many of them soldiers shipped off to
The majority of them are from Piedmont but some also from
Wednesday's ruling was hailed by Luca Procacci, a
lawyer acting for 12 men who have taken the German government to court for
their ill treatment at a Daimler Benz factory near
''At long last these 12 elderly men from southern
''They were taken by the Germans when they were just boys, tortured and pressed
into labour at the Gaggenau
death camp. They were civilians, not military, and they've endured unspeakable
suffering all their lives. One of my clients still has to to
tie himself to the bed in order to sleep''.
''It's a disgrace that
He said his clients have been surviving for years on a pension of just 450
euros a month.
T wo of an original group of
14 have died since Procacci put the case to a
The lawyer also thanked the
Thousands of Italians were deported to
The 12 claimants in the current class action were all captured in the town of
They are also suing Daimler-Chrysler.
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