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effort of the Military Courts that, despite the long and then in Bologna at Palazzo d’Accursio. A very
time, have been redeeming since 1996 the dar- significant stage is the one in Frankfurt (Hesse),
kest pages of the 1960s, fulfilling their duties with in autumn 2024, where the exhibition will be in
honour and commitment, preparing hundreds of Paulskirche, a symbol of German democracy.
proceedings and performing 24 trials for war cri- The project, finally, will be held in the United
mes, even after many years, in the attempt to gua- States and in other Italian cities, such as Padova,
rantee justice to tens of thousands of citizens. Cremona and Reggio Emilia.
The project has turned into a touring exhibi- This exhibition is just the first phase of a more
tion that involved many cities: in 2022 it was in La ambitious project, that aims at establishing a Do-
Spezia (at the CAMeC, Centro di Arte e Cultura cumentation Centre of nazifascist war crimes in
Contemporanea - Centre of Modern and Contem- Italy and abroad, similar to those already existing
porary Art), in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi and in in Germany, for example in Nurnberg and Munich.
Palermo at Palazzo Sclafani. In 2023, instead, it In this sense, the huge amount of materials ga-
was in Naples at PAN (Palazzina delle Arti di Na- thered during the investigations and trials could
poli), at Verona’s Fair, in Milan at Castello Sforza become the core of this initiative, allowing the
and in Turin at Museo del Risorgimento (National preservation of these documents from the con-
Museum of the Italian Risorgimento - Palazzo Ca- crete danger of deterioration and thus facilitating
rignano). In 2024 it was in Bari at Castello Svevo the research in this field of Italian modern history.
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