Post by account_disabled on Dec 21, 2023 4:06:47 GMT
The ghosts of Cansiglio«Among the partisans I met well-educated people and well-disciplined units, but for the most part they were gangsters out for personal gain and glory... They are building around themselves a rich and completely false mythology which will then forever be taught in schools Italian.» JR Reynolds, Amgot in Italy, «The Tablet», 22 September 1945 During the 1944-45 civil war, the province of Treviso represented one of the most tormented areas of Italy. The presence on the Cansiglio of a large group of Bolognese partisans sent by the leaders of the Italian Communist Party contributed to increasing the clash between the parties and the number of deaths in an area traditionally not prone to violence.
The murderous fury of these "avengers" developed above all after the war was over, when the vanquished had laid down their weapons and surrendered, and it was therefore easier to attack them. Moreover, it could not be otherwise, since the vaunted constitution of partisan "divisions", "brigades" and "battalions" in terms of personnel was reduced to the presence of Special Data numerically small units that operated with guerrilla techniques based on sabotage, ambushes and "hit and run" actions, provoking useless and bloody reprisals almost always paid for by the civilian population.
Under the fire test of the frontal clash in the raids of Grappa and Cansiglio, these forces, disorganized and ill-equipped, fell apart, reappearing at the end of the war to occupy deserted cities, parade as victors alongside the Anglo-Americans and take their last revenge on soldiers and civilians , the bodies of most of which - more than 2,000 according to partisan sources - were made to disappear in the numerous sinkholes in the area. Despite this unflattering family album, the "myth of the resistance" - a set of historical concealments, crimes and legends - ran throughout the second half of the 20th century and only began to fade after the collapse of communism in Europe.
The murderous fury of these "avengers" developed above all after the war was over, when the vanquished had laid down their weapons and surrendered, and it was therefore easier to attack them. Moreover, it could not be otherwise, since the vaunted constitution of partisan "divisions", "brigades" and "battalions" in terms of personnel was reduced to the presence of Special Data numerically small units that operated with guerrilla techniques based on sabotage, ambushes and "hit and run" actions, provoking useless and bloody reprisals almost always paid for by the civilian population.
Under the fire test of the frontal clash in the raids of Grappa and Cansiglio, these forces, disorganized and ill-equipped, fell apart, reappearing at the end of the war to occupy deserted cities, parade as victors alongside the Anglo-Americans and take their last revenge on soldiers and civilians , the bodies of most of which - more than 2,000 according to partisan sources - were made to disappear in the numerous sinkholes in the area. Despite this unflattering family album, the "myth of the resistance" - a set of historical concealments, crimes and legends - ran throughout the second half of the 20th century and only began to fade after the collapse of communism in Europe.
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