Posted on Apr 12, 2021
Italy faces calls to come to terms with its dark wartime past 80 years after invasion of...
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For decades, Italians liked to think that their soldiers behaved with decency and compassion during the Second World War, in contrast to the atrocities carried out by their German counterparts.
It was a comforting image that was perpetuated by popular culture, including the award-winning 1991 film Mediterraneo about a platoon of hapless soldiers stranded on a tiny Greek island who spend their days playing football with urchins, seducing the local women and swimming in the Aegean.
But it was a myth, the result of collective amnesia and wishful thinking.
It was a comforting image that was perpetuated by popular culture, including the award-winning 1991 film Mediterraneo about a platoon of hapless soldiers stranded on a tiny Greek island who spend their days playing football with urchins, seducing the local women and swimming in the Aegean.
But it was a myth, the result of collective amnesia and wishful thinking.
Italy faces calls to come to terms with its dark wartime past 80 years after invasion of...
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Suppose Italy did not enter the war in 1940, the Coup in Yugoslavia doesn’t succeed and the Germans are free to attack the Soviet Union in April 1941. The Germans, quite correctly understood that but by 1943 the Soviet Union would be able to destroy them
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