Alessandra Kersevan Explained

Alessandra Kersevan
Birth Date:18 December 1950
Birth Place:Monfalcone, Gorizia, Italy
Field:Contemporary history
Work Institutions:Udine, Italy
Alma Mater:University of Trieste

Alessandra Kersevan (born 18 December 1950) is a historian, author and editor living and working in Udine.[1] She researches Italian modern history, including the Italian resistance movement and Italian war crimes.She is the editor of a group called Resistenza storica at Kappa Vu edizioni, an Italian publisher.Her research have caused a huge hate campaign against her from the political right environment, both institutional and extra-parliamentary.

Research

Her research (confirmed by the documents found in British archives by the British historian Effie Pedaliu and by the Italian historians Costantino Di Sante[2] and Davide Conti[3]) pointed out that the memory of the existence of the Italian concentration camps and Italian war crimes in general has been repressed due to the Cold War.[4] In the collective memory of the Italian public and media this has led to historical revisionism, in particular concerning post-war foibe massacres.[5] Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia requested extradition of Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like the Nuremberg trial, because the British government, with the beginning of Cold War, saw in Pietro Badoglio a guarantee of an anti-communist post-war Italy.[4] [6]

In the 1950s, two Italian film-makers were jailed[7] for depicting the Italian invasion of Greece.Kersevan attributes this to historic revisionism.[8] She compares historic revisionism in Italy to the situation in France where she notes historic mythology is deconstructed.She gives the French people's understanding of the Vichy period as an example.

In 2003, Italian media reported that Silvio Berlusconi had said, "Benito Mussolini only used to send people on vacation".[9] This gave weight and illustrated the thesis made by Kersevan.

The 2012 diplomatic protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia

In February 2012, Italian state TV talk show host Bruno Vespa televised a photograph from July 1942 depicting Italian troops killing civilian hostages in the Slovenian village of Dane[10] and claimed that it showed the opposite. Killings like these, ordered by Italian general Mario Roatta, were widespread during the Fascist occupation of Slovenia.[11] Kersevan, who was a guest on the show, objected, but Vespa did not apologise, and Maurizio Gasparri, a former Italian Minister of Communications - and once militant of the far right party Movimento Sociale Italiano - compared Kersevan to the KGB.[12] A protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia followed.[13] [14]

Published works

Editorial and co-editor contributions

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lager d'Italia - Il coraggio che non abbiamo . Paolo Rumiz, Moni Ovadia . . 2008-04-13 . 2012-03-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140713201914/http://nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf . 2014-07-13 . dead .
  2. Di Sante, Costantino (2005) Italiani senza onore: I crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941-1951), Ombre Corte, Milano. (Archived by WebCite®)
  3. Web site: Criminali di guerra Italiani . Conti, Davide . Odradek Edizioni. 2011 . 2012-10-14.
  4. [Effie G. H. Pedaliu]
  5. Web site: Article . Senza Soste. 2010-02-10 . 2012-03-09.
  6. Rory, Carroll (2003) Italy's bloody secret. (Archived by WebCite®), The Guardian, London, UK, June 25
  7. https://web.archive.org/web/20061005113751/http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/itaimp1.html Rory, Carroll. Italy's bloody secret. The Guardian. (Archived by WebCite®)
  8. Alessandra Kersevan (2008) Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica. Kappavu, Udine.
  9. http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/29/camp_ed3_.php Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia
  10. Web site: Italian state TV has been manipulating with the photo of Slovene hostages (Slovene: RAI manipuliral s fotografijo slovenskih talcev. . 2012-02-14 . 2012-03-09.
  11. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/rmis/2004/00000009/00000003/art00005 James H. Burgwyn: "General Roatta's war against the partisans in Yugoslavia: 1942", Journal of Modern Italian Studies, Volume 9, Number 3, September 2004, pp. 314-329(16), link by IngentaConnect
  12. News: Smargiassi . Michele . 23 March 2012 . Non dire falsa testimonianza . You shall not give false testimony . . Italian . . 15 February 2017 .
  13. Web site: Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia protests against the falsification of historical facts. . 2012-02-15 . 2012-03-09.
  14. http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-1784a3df-aa07-4bcd-a5ab-1be49cfa2899.html?refresh_ce#p=0 Talk show "Il giorno del ricordo - Porta a Porta"
  15. Web site: Pulizia etnica all\'italiana . Alberto Bobbio . . 2004-02-08 . 2012-03-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612172749/http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Slovenia/Pulizia-etnica-all-italiana . June 12, 2011 . (Archived by WebCite®)
  16. Web site: Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica . Kappa Vu . 2012-03-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120419201236/http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 . 2012-04-19 . dead .

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