«Today Italy honors and pays homage to the memory of the 335 victims of the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, a terrible massacre perpetrated by the Nazi occupation troops in retaliation for the partisan attack in Via Rasella». So does the prime minister Giorgia Meloni recalled the massacre of 80 years ago, on 24 March 1944. A step forward compared to the declaration of a year ago, when he defined the victims as “innocents massacred only because they were Italian” and the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa he had classified the Nazis hit in via Rasella as “retired musicians”. But there was no shortage of controversy this time either. The president of the Anpi, Gianfranco Pagliarulo, on the association’s Facebook page he attacked the prime minister because «she doesn’t talk about the responsibility of the Italian fascists, starting with police commissioner Caruso who was sentenced to death for having prepared the list of 50 people to be killed in the Ardeatine. And you don’t say that the victims were overwhelmingly anti-fascists and Jews.” In short, she «once again omits and confuses». Giorgia Meloni «just can’t say that they were killed by the Nazis and fascists because they were anti-fascists. He is stronger than her”, the deputy adds Nicola Fratoianni of the Green Left Alliance.
The two partisans who challenged the Nazi-fascists in Rome in 1944
by Maurizio Molinari
On the right, the taboo of one’s ideal origins, the inability to deal with history, what the Germans call history, seems unresolved. coping with the past.
“Two fundamental words are missing from the prime minister’s note: fascism and anti-fascism,” the historian points out Davide Contiin the bookstore with Fascists against democracy, Einaudi. «The fascist authorities not only rounded up the civilians in via Rasella but provided the names of people who were killed in the Fosse Ardeatine, many victims were anti-fascists who at that moment were locked up in the prisons in via Tasso and Regina Coeli». «The massacre has remained in the memory as a Nazi massacre but it is also Italian and fascist» they write Mario Avagliano and Marco Palmieri it is The broken lives of the Fosse Ardeatine, just published by Einaudi. «The massacre takes place in the territory formally and under the jurisdiction of the RSI and the Rome police headquarters actively participates in the selection of the victims».
It must be said that the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano he pronounced the word fascism: «The victims were massacred with the ferocious collaboration of the fascists» he said after placing a wreath of flowers in front of the commemorative plaque commemorating the massacre together with the German Minister for Culture and Media, Claudia Roth. The Minister of Agriculture was also present, Francesco Lollobrigida, the prime minister’s brother-in-law. After that Federico Molliconeone of the heralds of the Culture clash melonian, e Thomas Fotithe group leader of the Brothers of Italy in the Chamber, in commemorating the anniversary they were careful not to mention the role played by fascism in the retaliation for the 35 deaths of the partisan action in via Rasella.
“The decisive responsibilities lay with the German command, with which the fascists aligned themselves after Hitler had threatened to bomb Rome”, he adds Luciano Canforain the bookstore with Fascism never died, published by Dedalo. The right has often questioned the legitimacy of the Gap’s action. Camphor invites us to contextualise. And he quotes Leo Valiani than in his All roads lead to Rome, published in 1947, had justified «terrorism against the Nazi-Fascist occupation troops to shake up what he called the waiters». Yesterday on the poster Alessandro Portellithe author of the fundamental The order has already been carried out, the Fosse Ardeatine, the memory he recalled that «it is not a question of ceremonial commemoration. As already on April 25th, from the Berlusconi era to today, at the heart of these national anniversaries lies an elementary question: which side are you on?”. All this while the anti-fascist bicycle ride was taking place in a spring city, in which writers and artists participated, from Nanni Moretti to Fabrizio Gifuni, Vinicio Capossela to Nicola Lagioia. Moretti, Jasmine Trinca and Elio Germano read the testimonies of the martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine. “The resistance is here and today,” recalled the CGIL leader Maurizio Landini.
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– 2024-03-30 22:00:46
