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"This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942/43. Of 230,000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100,000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's...

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Autor principal: Giusti, Maria Teresa (Autor)
Otros Autores: Vargiu, Riccardo James (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Italy. > Regio Esercito. > Corpo di spedizione italiano in Russia.
Italy. > Regio Esercito. > Armata, VIII.
Italy. > Regio Esercito. > Corpo di spedizione italiano in Russia > History.
Italy. > Regio Esercito. > Armata, VIII > History.
Prisoners of war.
Military campaigns.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Soviet Union.
Prisoners of war > Italy.
Prisoners of war > Soviet Union.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
Soviet Union.
Italy.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942/43. Of 230,000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100,000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the September 8, 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military elite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between the USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners"--
Notas:"This volume is the English translation of the extended second edition of I prigionieri italiani in Russia (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2014), originally in Italian. For the purposes of this translation, the material has been revised and edited for an English readership."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (388 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9789633863565

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