Fotografia in bianco e nero.
Alcuni civili e un soldato tedesco in una via di Napoli nel maggio del 1941 © BArch, RH 82 Bild-00176 / o. Ang.

Topics

In order to know the context in which the massacres of civilians took place, to understand the social and political climate in which the trials against the Täter were conducted, and in which memory was constructed in Germany and Italy, it is necessary to delve into certain themes of the war period and the following decades.

The Second World War

  • Black and White image of people moving belongings and themselfs into a train.
    © BArch, 101I-176-1367-35 / Cuno

    The Italian Military Internees

    Although the approximately 700,000 captured Italian soldiers were originally classified as prisoners of war and thus protected by the Geneva Convention, the German government declared them ‘Italian military internees’ (IMI).

    The Second World War
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