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The Missing Italian Nuremberg

Cultural Amnesia and Postwar Politics

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Authors:
  1. Michele Battini
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Editors:
  1. Stanislao G. Pugliese
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Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. To Prosecute and Portray the Enemy

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 1-24

  3. Prologue: Trials and Lessons of History

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 25-29

  4. The Deconstruction of Memory

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 31-41

  5. Why the Maxi-Trial for War Criminals Was Never Held

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 43-82

  6. The Kesselring Trial

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 83-94

  7. Judiciary Oblivion and the Sins of Memory

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 95-114

  8. A Brutal Peace and the Nuremberg Consensus

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 115-123

  9. The “Mirror” of Vichy

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 125-138

  10. Epilogue Without an End

    • Michele Battini
    Pages 139-144

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 145-178
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About this book

This book explores how the trial of the entire military command of the Nazi power structure in Italy, prepared by the Allies following the Nuremberg mode, came to be replaced by a few contradictory trials of very minor significance. This resulted in an enormous historical misrepresentation of the Nazi occupation of Italy.

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"Battini's excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military command in Italy for war crimes committed against civilians between 1943 and 1945. In short, of the Italian Nuremberg. Or rather, what would have been the Italian Nuremberg, because this trial never happened. Battini presents massive evidence on how the Allies, especially the British, between 1945 and 1947, worked on the project of setting up such a trial. Battini interestingly probes the crucial and embarrassing question of why and how the project was eventually abandoned, in the face of the changing political context in Europe. Two larger and mutually related questions loom over the work: one is the painful and contested process of constructing a shared memory, the second is the subject of seeking international justice for war crimes against humanity." - Marta Petrusewicz, Professor of History, Hunter College, City University of New York

"The book deals with a recent and significant historical subject: the problem of seeking international justice for war crimes against humanity. These considerations are highly relevant today, in matters ranging from the atrocities committed during the war in ex-Yugoslavia, to trying despots from the state of Iraq. Battini is a historian of ideas, and concentrates on what he rightly calls the Italian deconstruction of memory in comparative perspective. Why have the Germans reached a reckoning day with their history, while the Italians have chosen the path of what Battini calls a voluntary collective amnesia ? What is the importance in general of the reconstruction of memory, or its absence?" - Paul Ginsborg, Professor of History, University of Florence

About the author

MICHELE BATTINI teaches modern European history and political thought at the University of Pisa, Italy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Missing Italian Nuremberg

  • Book Subtitle: Cultural Amnesia and Postwar Politics

  • Authors: Michele Battini

  • Editors: Stanislao G. Pugliese

  • Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230607453

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8478-4Published: 25 September 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54004-4Published: 25 September 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60745-3Published: 20 August 2007

  • Series ISSN: 2635-2931

  • Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 178

  • Topics: History of Italy, European History, Modern History, Social History, Cultural History

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