Marzabotto massacre

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Marzabotto massacre. This Italian commune in the province of Bologna had a population in 1944 of 4,200 of whom 650 lived in the main town. Between May and July 1944, following operations against Italian partisans German forces carried out bloody reprisals there destroying 58 houses. Then, in October 1944, elements of the SS Panzer Division ‘Adolf Hitler’ arrived under the command of Major Walter Reder who, on 12 August, had burned Santa Anna di Stazzema (Lucca), massacring 560 people. When his operations at Marzabotto ended, on 18 October 1944, nothing remained of the commune and a total of 1,604 men, women, and children and 226 partisans had been murdered. Marzabotto and Santa Anna di Stazzema were awarded the Medaglia d'oro and their names, along with those of other European towns such as Lidiče and Oradour-sur-Glane, became symbols of Nazi brutality. After the war Reder was tried, convicted and condemned to life imprisonment. See also atrocities.

Lucio Ceva ( andTr. John Gooch)

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