Kod Do Little Pet Shop

del Grappa

The value of memory.

happened today: 26 September
was the year: 1944

Italy is a strange country: remember what they want and forget what is convenient.
task of the historian is, therefore, bring to light events that you would like to bury in the area of 'shadow of memory.
Among the events just mentioned, for one reason or another, there is one that is closely related to my land and its people: the area of \u200b\u200bBassano del Grappa.

early September 1944, in a broad anti-partisan action, the German commander Kesselring ordered the "reclamation" of the territories of Grappa, a strategically important area for the Germans.
Grappa massif, part of the Alps, is in a kind of square with the leaders of four major population centers, looks like this:

ARSI '(north west), Feltre (north east), giving access to Valsugana
BASSANO (south west); MONTEBELLUNA (south east), giving access to the valley of the Po and Piave area.

The Grappa was therefore an ideal area to access, in short, all the north-east of Italy. From Grappa Bassano, Bassano and Padua, from Montebelluna Grappa, and here in Treviso - Venice - Adriatic Sea. Grappa and then by the Valsugana Trento - Bolzano - Brenner - Germany.

In that area were operating the Brigade Gramsci (born after the death of Colonel Zancanaro, who was killed by the Nazis in June 1944). Antonio Gramsci was the Garibaldi Brigade partisans inside the joint and Catholics by Catholic from Feltre. It was composed of roughly five hundred patriots, divided into five battalions (Zancanaro, Battisti, Gherla, Da Min and Montegrappa). Summer arrived to count nearly a thousand members.

In late summer of '44, the Socialists remained the Grappa Matteotti, the Garibaldi Brigade " Montegrappa " of Gramsci, and two smaller brigades: "Free Italy - Piave", " Italy Free Cross Field ", named after an area of \u200b\u200bGrappa.

Kesselring ordered the raid. The operations planned for a week, lasted only two days, were employed about 10,000 men, joined by soldiers of the Legion "M Tagliamento" from Black Brigade of Vicenza and Treviso and volunteers of the National Guard Republic.
The results of the raid were terrible. Entire villages were burned, killed the livestock, ruined crops, burned all the barns. Were killed numerous civilians and partisans. The exact number is unknown. There were, contrary to the historical reconstruction of the war, epic battles, but gun battles, chases, summary killings of surrendered. There was talk of 600 shot, but it is now certified. The real massacre took place later in raid concluded, by the partisans stragglers arrested, beaten to death, who picked up the seat belt stretched around the Grappa.

On September 26, Bassano del Grappa, were hanged 31 young patriots, who were arrested in the days earlier. Were loaded onto a truck, hands tied with wire behind his back and a sign around his neck ("Notice"). A young soldier fascist put the neck of the prisoner made a noose with a telephone cord, attached to the mast of the main avenue of Bassano del Grappa. An abrupt and accelerated the partisan left hanging tree.
31 stops, 31 loops with the phone cord, 31 accelerated. And the bodies left hanging for 22 hours, between the jokes and insults the boys of the fascists. Mussolini himself, when he heard about it, she was alarmed.
were shot, then, 19 other patriots, and many others were deported to Polish concentration camps from which few returned, after the war.

There were, in the post-process worthy of the name. German leaders were not prosecuted. There was, in Treviso, a process militates against the fascists, but it was distorted, like all processes of war, the desire to forget, and were in various ways, amnesty.
Who ordered the massacre was discovered, thanks to three brave historians: Sonia Residori, Lorenzo Capovilla, Federico Maisano. Managers:
SS Lieutenant Herbert Andorfer, born 1911, Linz (Austria)
SS corporal Karl-Franz Tausch, born in 1922, of Olmuetz (Czech Republic)

Espresso journalist Paul Tessadri has discovered where he lived, yet , in Langen, near Frankfurt.
Tausch committed suicide last year, September 25, 2008, exactly 64 years dall'eccidio.

Last night, in Fontana, former Senator Emilio Pegoraro, then partisan of Gramsci, recalled those horrible pages and wanted to pay homage to the heirs of the families of farmers who have hidden, endangering their lives, escape the raids.

Recommended Books:
Various Authors - The process of mopping up the fascists del Grappa. Court of Assizes of extraordinary Treviso (1947) - ED. ISTRECO -
2004




Also:
Sonia Residori, the slaughter del Grappa, Istrevi - Cierre editions.

Can Platypuses Get Rabies?

secretary of state Henry Kissinger and the Nobel Peace

was the year: 1973

Day: September 22

Location: White House, Washington.

On September 22, 1973 he was appointed secretary of state Henry Kissinger, German naturalized U.S. citizen. On
Kissinger can be said of all: that was a great statesman, a diplomat with the flakes, a pacemaking, etc.. etc.. For me, however, will always be a war criminal.
After the victory of the Unidad Popular in 1970, which led to President Salvador Allende (a moderate socialist traditions), many general of the Chilean would have liked to keep his office at the "La Moneda, the presidential palace in Santiago. It was a general, Rene Schneider, block it. The army's independence was guaranteed by this noble soldier who voiced as a result of what was called as the so-called "doctrine Schneider", namely absolute apolitical armed forces and their loyalty only to the Constitution. Well, October 25, 1970, Rene Schneider was the victim of an ambush. His death was attributed to one of the most reactionary general Chile, Roberto Viaux.
behind the murder bumped Kissinger's hand. Three years later, Salvador Allende died in his presidential palace, while the air force bombed and tanks besieged the residence of the president.
Eleven days after the coup, Kissinger became secretary of state of the Nixon administration.
In that year will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize!

advice:
Christopher Hitchens, Trial of Henry Kissinger, Fazi Editore, 2005.

Spacewalker Mv42v1 3 Manual

Bad news - Bad news from Strelets

site plastic soldier review reports that, from the catalog of future productions of the Strelets would be missing the boxes provided on the Great Northern War:

• Early Russian
• Guard Infantry of Charles XII
• Army of Peter the Great

It 's a sin. It may be that, with regard to the third box we read our review and we have given up:)


Plastic soldier review reports that:
... Have three sets now disappeared from the Strelets futures list. All These Great Northern War sets ...

• Early Russian Infantry
• Guard of Charles XII
• Army of Peter the Great

... Have Been apparently abandoned. "

Rental Walk Through Form

1973 Nuremberg Laws

happened today: Sept. 15

was the year: 1935

happened where Nuremberg

On September 15, 1935 were made public the determinations of the Reichstag. The world learned so that Hitler's Germany began to put into practice the ideas of Hitler and racial Rosenberg.
Here, an excerpt from "Reichsbürgergesetz", ie the law on citizenship.

Reichsbürgergesetz

Staatsangehöriger ist, wer dem Schutzverband des Deutschen Reiches und ihm angehört Darfur verpflichtet Besonders ist.

citizen of the State ( Staatsangehöriger ) who is part of the gated community of the German Reich with whom he has ties that bind a particular way.

Staatsangehörigkeit Die wird nach den Vorschriften des Reichs-und Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetzes erworben.

Membership status is acquired under the provisions of law regulating the membership of the Reich and the state.

Citizen of Reich ( Reichsbürger ) is the only member of the state of German or related blood who through his behavior proves to be willing and suitable to serve faithfully the people and the German Reich.

The right to citizenship of the Reich is achieved by granting the title of citizen of the Reich

The citizen of the Reich is the only depository of full political rights by law.

with these few paragraphs will set the stage for racial discrimination.

The next step, the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor," read:

pervaded by the recognition that the purity of German blood is a prerequisite for the preservation of the German people and animated by the indomitable purpose to ensure the future of the German nation, the Reichstag adopted to 'the unanimous following Act which was promulgated here:

PAR. 1

1. Are prohibited marriages between Jews and citizens of the state of German or related blood. I already celebrated marriages are null and void even though celebrated abroad to escape the law.
2. The lawsuit for cancellation may be made only by the state prosecutor.

PAR. 2

are prohibited sexual relations outside of marriage between Jews and citizens of the state of German or related blood.

PAR. 3

Jews can not take home to their service as citizens of German or related blood under 45 years.

PAR . 4

1. Jews are forbidden to raise the flag of the Reich and national and presenting the colors of the Reich.
2. You instead allowed them to expose the Jewish colors. The exercise of this right is protected by the state.

PAR . 5

1. Those who violate the ban referred to in par. 1, is punished with imprisonment ..
2. Those who contravene the rules laid down in par. 2 is liable to imprisonment or with hard labor.
3. Those who contravene the rules set out in paras. 3 or 4, shall be punished by imprisonment up to one year and a fine or punishment of this kind.

PAR . 6

Minister of Interior of the Reich, in agreement with the Deputy Fuhrer and the Reich Minister of Justice shall issue the necessary legal and administrative rules for the implementation and integration of the law.

PAR . 7

This Act comes into force on the day of its promulgation; ll par. 3, instead, from 1 January 1936 (domestic rules, ndc)

not need any comment. The important thing is to REMEMBER.

immagine tratta da http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reichsbürgergesetz_v._15.9.1935_-_RGBl_I_1146.jpg - no copyright This image is in the public domain according to German copyright law because it is part of a statute, ordinance, official decree or judgment (official work) issued by a German federal or state authority or court (§ 5 Abs.1 UrhG).

Per approfondire :
Raul Hildberg,  La distruzione degli ebrei d'Europa , Einaudi 1999

Wording For European Wedding Thank Yous

from "L'Eco di Bergamo." September 7, 2009

Today is a long interview on "L'Eco di Bergamo", signed by the good journalist Mariella Radaelli.
finally begins to move something to recover the historical memory of key events in the history of Italy, but surprisingly dropped into oblivion. One of these is the massacre of Piazzale Giulio Cesare, Milan, who in 1928 became twenty-four victims, and of which nothing was known. The first to break the silence of the season, on the massacre, was Lelio Basso. In 1978, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the explosion. Then, for another thirty years, still silence. Only Franzinelli Mimmo, the historian that I admire most, is interested in the matter, in his "The tentacles secret police," a book critical to understand the mechanisms of fascist police power and control. Just Franzinelli guided me through the intricacies of the archives of the Fascist police, and then he took the trouble to read the manuscript.
Here is the text of the interview: