Gen.Hoepner
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ORIGINAL: Terminus To turn the conversation a little away, Hoepner, is that really still a big issue in Italy? That Italy weren't "honourable" during WW2, I mean. Italy is STILL torn in two pieces. And when i say torn i mean badly torn. Consider that in Italy those who fought with the R.S.I army after the 8th sept 43 were badly punished after the war. Many were killed between 45 and '47 ( from many sources it seems that more than 80,000 ). The so called "repubblichini" ( means those who were in the RSI army) could not find a job during the post-war period. They were treated as plagued and considered less than sub-humans. Many of RSI soldiers "changed side" in the 50s, when they understood that there was no way to be accepted by the new society rather than declare themself Democratics, Partisans or Comunits. The political Right wing was banned from the new Parliament, and the new filo-american governament made a lot of laws that punished everything that was linked with the Fascism. Those laws remains still today. Now, 4 generations passed by in the last 60 years, but things did not change much. During the 70s hundreds of students have been killed ( by police or by the left-activists ) just because they defined themselfs "neo-fascists", and the State never did anything to stop this slaughter. Today, the question is still discussed a LOT in the medias. Last year a left-oriented famous Italian jornalist ( G.Pansa ) published a book, named "The blood of the losers", that described what the "blacks", the ex-fascists, had to suffer from 45 to 1950, describing the murders, the discrimination and so on.... well this book opened an incredible "querelle" in italy. Every single newspaper, every single TV show talked for months about that. Many many many historicians and politicians attacked G.Pansa for being a betrayer 'cause those "pigs" didn't deserve any mercy....it was amazing to watch the hunger of those young intellectual left-oriented when talking about the italian civil war..... You know.....here it's very difficult to express these feelings, that are NOT neo-fascist, but just historical. Here, is still impossible to buy a book on a german division, and not being called a NAZI....i remember 2 years ago...i was on train towards Milan. I had a book with me ( the DECIMA FLOTTIGLIA MAS by J.V. Borghese ) and a man started to call me fascist...screaming and shouting at me.....with many many others in the train wagon looking at me as if i was an alien.... Here the scars of the civil war are still present in each italian family. Those who had the relatives killed by the Fascist militia will never forgive. Those, like me, who has granfathers and granmothers killed by Italian partisan assassins when the war was already ended or enprisoned for ages just because the did keep fighting the invader, will never forget.
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