Anatomy of a massacre : how the SS got away with war crimes in Italy / Christian Jennings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennings, Christian, author.

Contributor:

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waffen-SS. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS", 16--History.

Waffen-SS.

World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Italy--Stazzema.

World War, 1939-1945.

Massacres--Italy--Stazzema--History--20th century.

Massacres.

Waffen-SS. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS", 16.

Atrocities.

Italy--Stazzema.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

288 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, Gloucestershire : History Press, 2021.

Summary:

"On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division arrived in the village of Sant'Anna, hidden high in the olive groves and chestnut woods of the Tuscan mountains. Seeking reprisal, the SS killed 560 of the villagers, eighty of whom were under 16, one a 3-week-old baby. Survivors of the massacre, all young children at the time, have since spearheaded a 75-year campaign to bring the killers to justice. In the process these Italians now pensioners have exposed an international judicial cover-up stretching across Europe, and lasting three generations. None of the SS killers responsible for the most notorious war crime in Italy's history have ever been caught, or served a day in prison. Ten were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia by Italian courts as Germany refused to extradite them. From Tuscany to Rome and to the modern day streets of Hamburg and the government ministries of Bonn. The Olive Trees Screamed Murder tells the comprehensive story of the massacre at Sant'Anna di Stazzema, and the 75-year international failure to bring the killers to justice"--Publisher's description

Contents:

The rank structure of the Waffen-SS

Prologue

Italy surrenders

Reprisals

Partisans

The SS Division

The children of Sant'Anna di Stazzema

A trail of massacres

The American investigate

On the plateau at Monte Sole

Getting away with murder

Victors' justice

The first war crimes trials

Amnesty in New Italy

The trial of Walter Reder

SS Men in the New Germany

The cupboard of shame

The trials

Voices of the SS

German apologies and reconciliation

Tuscany today

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

075099519X

9780750995191

OCLC:

1203964687

Publisher Number:

99987890570