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Hundreds of WW II Nazi, Italian Fascist civilian massacres in Italy still a festering politcal wound
By Joe Kirwin
Nazi and Italian Fascist troops committed more than 200 civilian massacres in WW II in Italy between July of 1944 and April of 1945. Few were held accountable for the cold-blooded murders, especially in Italy. Eighty years later the issue festers as Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni's political party Brothers of Italy has neo-fascist roots linked to Hitler's ally Benito Mussolini. He ruled Italy for two decades before he was killed by Italian freedom fighters at the end of WW II.
Carlo Gentile, an Italian native and history professor at the University of Cologne in Germany…
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