The Democratic Party’s priority? Work, school, urban safety? No. Trivial and outdated themes. On the contrary, according to the progressive universe, it is essential to talk, without interruption, about the drama of the Second World War. Yet another demonstration of this authentic obsession comes from the Tuscan regional councilor, Giacomo Bugliani. “Compensation to the victims of Nazi-fascism cannot be delayed any longer: any obstacle that persists in terms of recognizing compensation, provided for in national legislation, must be eliminated. It is a necessary passage to collective memory that cannot continue to be postponed. Tuscany between 1943 and 1945 was the scene of clashes between armies and the site of Nazi-fascist massacres: the Atlas of Memory reports 832 episodes of murders with 4,477 victims among the civilian population.”
Bugliani, president of the Institutional Affairs committee, presented a motion to request the regional council to take measures with the Government to guarantee the implementation of the compensation measure provided for in Legislative Decree No. 36 of 2022, avoiding unjustified delays in the settlement of compensation and application of the standard in accordance with the true spirit that contains this measure. “Our region, which has long been committed to reconstructing a historical memory of the crimes committed by Nazi-fascism, has formed a civil party against those accused of having ordered and carried out civilian massacres between 1943 and 1945 and stands alongside those municipal administrations, for example Stazzema, which took legal action against Germany. This is because we want to see survivors and families of victims of massacres compensated in civil proceedings. The process of creating a collective memory about the massacres is increasingly indispensable today, in a context in which neo-fascist resurgences across Europe find fertile ground in an ambiguous and dangerous historiographical revisionism, even positions of true historical denialism. From Tuscany, a land that has included anti-fascism among the principles of its Statute, we are committed to sanctioning a long-unexpected passage of justice for family members and survivors of the brutality of the Nazi-fascist Horror.”
Source: IL Tempo
Emma Fitzgerald is an accomplished political journalist and author at The Nation View. With a background in political science and international relations, she has a deep understanding of the political landscape and the forces that shape it.
