Month: December 2023
‘Italiani Cattiva Gente? Anti-Italian Stereotypes and the Obfuscation of War Crimes in German Perpetrator Narratives from the Italian Theatre of War'Ricerche Storiche LIII (3), 2023, 105-130 (co-written with Dario Pasquini).
Anti-Italian stereotypes proved central to the defence strategy of German war criminals, such as Albert Kesselring, who were tried in the early post-war period for war-crimes committed in Italy. This article identifies a number of recurring tropes which repeatedly come to the fore in accounts given by Kesselring and other German generals and officers who fought in the Mediterranean theatre, both in the testimonies given during Kesselring’s trial, and in later memoirs.Read more...