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Egeo 1943-1945, gli anni dell'occupazione germanica.
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Panzer IV intorno le mura di Rodi |
The armistice of the 8 september 1943 picked
the impreparate Italian Armed Forces. In spite of the numerical
superiority, they were defeats after several combats that often saw
attacking German badly left. The defeat was caused from the errors of
the Armed forces high command of the Aegean, from the irresolutezza of
the Governor Champions and from psychological factors of allied former
subordination to the German. The Italian resistance will continue to Coo
and Lero where the last 6 German onslaught November will sweep up the
Italian resistance anglo. Valoroso Mascherpa admiral, commander of the
fort, will be imprisoned and condemned a.morte, with to Champions, after
a vergognoso process put in feet from a fascist court in May 1944.
The definitive conquest of Leros and the other
surrounding islands consolidated the German dominion, until to May 1945.
It begins for the Dodecaneso the darker period, the pitiless regimen of
terror established from gen.Wagener the successor of Kleeman, the hunger,
the strafings, the deportation of the Hebrew community transformed the "pearl
of the Mediterranean" in a gigantic one lager to the open. The history of
those years in the only up to now published search in Italy of prof.Luca
the Pignataro.
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1944, adorned on the Balbo public square for the birthday
of Hitler. The official who ago the nazi salute in Association of
Bologna is Otto Wagener. He was condemned like criminal of war in the
1948 from the Court of Rome but he discounted only two years of
jail.
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Gen.Fredrich Whilhelm Muller head of 22.o
Whermacht Infantry, here shown of flank with the dark coat, was the
craftsman of the German conquest of Kos and Leros but also the
executioner of 118 unarmed Italian officials. Fredrich Whilhelm Muller,
was condemned like executed criminal of war and to Atene in 1947. He was
responsible of the massacre of 12 Italian officials to Leros and others
103 to Coo, in both cases was be a matter of unarmed prisoners.
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A secret agreement between Italy and German federal Repubblica on the war
criminals allowed the liberation of the so-called "group of Rodi", the
nucleus more numerous than criminal nazis delivered to the Italian justice
from Allies
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The general Otto Wagener, commander of the
German troops on the island of Rodi, captain Helmut Meeske, greater the
Johann Koch and Herbert Nicklas, the medical official Christian
Korsukewitz, the lieutenant Paul Walter Never, the second lieutenant
Willy Hansky, the corporal Johann Felten, interpreter Georg Dallago was
proceeded the Military Court to you of Rome for numerous crimes store
clerks in the island of Rodi. In spite of the inflicted sentences they
were freed in secret between 1950 and 1951. Eight Wagener, nazi of the
first hour and friend of Hitler, morirà in its bed in 1971 like free
citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany. In this article, fruit of
taken care of searches, the historian and investigator prof. Filippo
Focardi, reveals which political interests, connivenze and complicities
embezzled these criminals to the justice. This vicissitude closely is
tied to that one of the "CLOSET Of the SHAME" about which it is spoken
in the following pages
ON CRIMES NAZIFASCISTI IN ITALY WE SIGNAL
http://www.stm.unipi.it/stragi/Processi/Documenti/RegistroCriminaliNzisti.htm Registro dei crimini di guerra nazifascisti rinvenuto nel maggio 1994 presso la sede della Procura Generale Militare di Roma, digitalizzato nel maggio 2001 dal gruppo di ricerca pisano “Guerra ai civili. Per un atlante delle stragi naziste in Toscana”.
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After the yield of the 11 september 1943 many
Italian soldiers gave themselves to the spot in the island of Rodi in
order to lead one fight without hope....
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The forgotten heroes of Rodhes |
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Salvatore Rubini |
| I quattro di Calavarda | |
| Gennaro Tescione M.O.V.M. (nella foto a fianco) | |
| Venturini il capitano "pazzo" | |
| I caduti del Fileremo | |
| s. Ten. Oreste Siclari | |
| Ten. Luigi Viviani | |
| 2 .o Capo di Marina (maresciallo) Pietro Carboni | |
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Photo of the military prison of Cattavia used
from the nazis as lager with to the House of the Pines many victims of the
violences and the hunger were the Italian soldiers.
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After the German yield the islands of the
Dodecaneso passed formally under the British administration that continued
to take advantage itself of that Italian, Italy still conserved for all
those that period the sovereignty until to the definitive passage to
Greece.
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The thesis of bachelor of Silvia June on the
Sede Saint and the problem of the hunger in Greece during the Second World
war. Academic year 1999-2000, University La Sapienza, Rome.
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Le prime tre foto dall'alto sono liberamente tratte dal libro "Kampf und die Aegeais" di Peter Schenck.
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