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The Marzabotto Massacre: SS Terror in Italy
In 1944, as the Allies pushed north through Italy, the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division 'Reichsführer-SS' carried out one of the worst war crimes on the Italian front: the Marzabotto massacre. Over three days in the hills south of Bologna, SS troops under Major Walter Reder killed at least 770 civilians in the village of Marzabotto and surrounding hamlets. This episode explores the massacre itself, the partisan activity that provoked it, the post-war trial of Reder, and the troubling amnesia around Germany's role in Italian war crimes. Lucas and Luna discuss the Monte Sole…
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