On Holocaust Remembrance Day
Friday President Sergio Mattarella paid tribute to the Italian
soldiers who were deported to Nazi camps for refusing to fight
with Germany after Italy ceased hostilities with the Allies in
World War II.
"On Remembrance Day we also recall the 650,000 Italian
military personnel deported to the German camps because, after
September 8 (1943), they refused to serve Hitler," Mattarella
said during a ceremony at the presidential palace.
"That page of history, full of suffering and courage is an
integral part of the Italian Resistance that is not always
sufficiently well known".
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