(ANSA) - Rome, January 27 - 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.
Mattarella recalls deported soldiers
President points out 650,000 sent to death camps