This book recounts the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema and examines its after effects. During the Nazi occupation of Italy, SS officers were charged with destroying anti-Fascist and anti-Nazi partisans. Paolo Pezzino not only reconstructs the events, but deals with the "forgetting" of the massacre.

'Memory and Massacre is a brilliant combination of historical reconstruction, analysis and reflection.' - Times Literary Supplement

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PAOLO PEZZINOProfessor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa, Italy. His previous publications include Storie di guerra civile: L'eccidio di Niccioleta (2001); Senza Stato: Le radici storiche della crisi (2002); Le mafie (2003); Anatomia di un massacro: Controversia sopra una strage tedesca (2007); Sant'Anna di Stazzema: Storia di una strage (2008); and with Luca Baldissara, Il massacro: Guerra ai civili a Monte Sole (2009).

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The Massacre Investigation of the Massacre Fighting the Armed Bands, the War Against Civilians Judicial Truth and Historical Truth 'Experts in Truth?': The Politics of Retribution in Italy and the Role of Historians