Kin of Italian victims of Nazis may finally get compensation
But funds are scarce and some may never see a euro
HEARING GUNFIRE, Leonildo Pistoni ran from the stables of his farm on the outskirts of Monchio, a mountain village in central Italy. He did not get far before he was shot dead. His killer was a rifleman of the Hermann Göring 1st Paratroop Panzer Division. The date was March 18th, 1944. Pistoni’s only crime was to live in Monchio: the rifleman belonged to a detachment sent to avenge nearby killings by local partisans of German soldiers, who had occupied Italy after it withdrew from the second world war the previous September.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Partial justice for partisans”
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