New probe begins into Nazi massacres of Italians in France
IMG class=hide alt=”New probe begins into Nazi massacres of Italians in France” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/wpid-fee0d1d6761ab2251316ccbcee91d30c.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, January 14 – The military prosecutor’s office in Rome has opened an investigation into the killing of several Italians in one of the largest civilian massacres in Nazi-occupied France. PProsecutor Marco De Paolis is probing the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane, where 642 civilians were killed, including an Italian immigrant and seven of her nine children on June 10 1944./PPThe prosecutor wants to formally identify the Italian victims, believed to include Lucia Zoccarato and seven of her children./PPThe massacre was ordered in retaliation for a series of resistance strikes again the German forces in France, including the kidnapping of a German soldier./PPIn the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, near Limoges in southwest France, the Nazis gathered the local civilians and then shot the men with machine guns in a barn while women and children were burned alive in a church that caught fire after bombs were set off./PPAfter the war, the burned-out village was not rebuilt but instead left as an open-air museum to preserve the memory of the massacre./PPZoccarato had emigrated to France in 1927, along with her husband Giuseppe Antonio Miozzo, who was a German prisoner at the time and therefore escaped the massacre./PPThe family left the San Giorgio delle Pertiche in the region of Padua with their first three children./PPIn 1953, 20 defendants faced trial in France for the massacre with two sentenced to death, 12 to forced labour but a subsequent amnesty commuted the death sentences and allowed the release of other convicts./PPA trial was recently ordered for an 88-year-old man in Germany who was allegedly involved in the massacre./P
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