michael mills wrote: ↑30 Aug 2019, 06:13
Sigh! How many times do I have to repeat what I initially wrote before you will take notice of it?
That is, that the fault of the massacre lies more with the inhabitants of Marzabotto than with the SS?
In a similar vein, the large number of Italians who collaborated with the Germans and joined the armed forces of the Italian Social Republic were motivated essentially by opposition to Communism rather than by any sort of racial ideology. This was a civil war, with right-wing Italians killing left-wing Italians and vice versa.
Uhm, no. There was perhaps what can be defined as a civil war, but not "right wing vs left wing", with the Italian Social Republic trying to suppress Communists. The Italian Resistance included people of all political political hue except of course Fascists. There were Communists, there were Socialists, there were Social Democrats, there were Liberals, there were Catholics (the "Green Flames" Brigades, with 20,000 men in 1944), there were Monarchists, there were "autonomous" partisan groups without a specific political affiliation (for instance Enrico Martini's "1° Gruppo Divisioni Alpine" in Piedmont, mostly composed of former officers and soldiers of the Italian armed forces)... It was the Fascists vs everyone.