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Nazi-fascist massacres committed in Italy and The final part of the exhibition is dedicat-
abroad against the civilians (defenceless people ed to criminal trials performed in Italian Military
estranged from the military operations or harm- Courts against German war criminals. These
less patriots captured by the Germans) and the attempts - although partial and on certain occa-
Italian soldiers (war prisoners or units belonging sions belated - were made to re-establish the le-
to the partisan Resistance) immediately during gal principles in matters of war crimes.
and after the Armistice, signed on September 8, It is also thanks to these trials - a part of
1943. which has been conducted after 60 years from
In addition to this, the focus of the exhibition the events - that new perspectives were fuelled
is also on the judicial process, a complex and rich in terms of study and research for historians and
procedure, full of lesser known events: the mil- scholars, without forgetting the reinforcement
itary criminal trials of the Allied Courts and the for what concerns the Memory of a fundamental
Italian Military Courts. chapter of Italian contemporary history.

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