Wednesday,
September 10, 2008
WWII Deportation of 600,000 Italians for
German Labor Camps during
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It seems strange
that there have been so many books that have written about the 8,000 Refugee
Jews in
I have read Nothing
about the some 8,000 Italians (of whom only 300 were
Jews) were deported to Mauthausen in
Austria. Only 850 came back alive.
Also, I had
previously heard NOTHING about September 8th
1944. It is a is a date that resonates with the Italian people, as a date
to to call attention to the memory of the 600,000 Italians deported to Germany after
8 September 1943 for the crime of following their conscience and disobeying
the orders of the Republic of Salo?.
Most were
Communists and/or Partisans, or merely expressing opposition to the Salo Gov
Historians,
authors, and those with an agenda, have done a great disservice to
(AGI) Roma,
September 8, 2008
Antonello Soro,
President of the Pd deputies, has published the following note: "the
ambiguous words of the Mayor of Rome on Fascism yesterday, and today those of
the Ministry of Defence, on the occasion of the commemoration
of Porta San Paolo, do not help the memory but
risk causing confusion and disorientation.
The Head of State
has done well to call attention to the memory of the 600,000 Italians deported to
Today,
http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200809081543-pol-ren0045-art.html
In 1938,Fascist Italian regime passed Racial Purity Laws ,
basically to deal with intermarriage of Italians and Ethiopians, and
in part under pressure from Nazi Germany, they included antisemitic laws. These laws forbade marriage between Jews
and non-Jews and removed Jewish teachers from the public schools. Italians to a
large degree either ignored the laws or tried to devise ways to circumvent.
Foreign Jews
living as refugees in
Encyclopfdia Britannica Article
In the meantime the Germans had
rescued Mussolini from
his mountain prison and restored him in the north as ruler of the "Italian Social Republic," a last-ditch puppet Fascist regime based in Salr on Lake Garda.
The republic tried to induct those
born in 1923, 1924, and 1925 into its army, but only 40 percent of young men
responded. Many others deserted soon after the call-up. In a congress held in
The German occupiers ruled through violence and the aid of the
local Fascists. Throughout German-occupied Italy, Refugee Jews and
oppositionists were rounded up and sent to detention camps
or prisons. Many Jews were sent straight from Italy on trains to concentration
and extermination camps
in Poland and Germany. In all, nearly 9,000 Refugeee
Jews were deported under the Germans. Only 980 returned.
Some 8,000 Italians (of whom 300 were Jews) were
deported to Mauthausen in Austria. Only 850 came back alive.
The German army responded to
partisan activity with violence and reprisals. A series of massacres of
civilians and partisans accompanied the German occupation and gradual retreat
up the peninsula. In March 1944, after a partisan bomb attack killed 33
members of the occupying forces in
Elsewhere the German army carried
out frequent brutal and random massacres of civilians as they retreated
northward, above all in
In addition, the Germans deported
hundreds of thousands of young men to work as forced labourers
in
Mussolini faded from view and
appeared less and less in public, making his last speech in
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