“[Sant’Anna di Stazzema is a] European memorial of pain,” said Mattarella of the Tuscan village.
“[It’s also] a symbol of redemption, of that human and civic renaissance that knew how to oppose barbarism, generating democracy, freedom, peace, where the intention was to cancel any hope.
“To the descendants and the people of Stazzema, who renew today the pain of their community for the massacre of their loved ones, goes the moved sentiment of the entire Nation.
“A great moral inheritance was left by survivors.
“The Republic can recognise its roots here,” noted Mattarella.
The August 12, 1944 massacre in Sant’Anna di Stazzema was the second worst WWII Nazi atrocity in Italy after the September 1944 Marzabotto massacre which killed over 770 people.
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