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'''Alessandra Kersevan''' (born December 18th 1950) is an [[historian]], author and editor living and working in [[Udine]].<ref name="coraggio">{{cite web|url=http://www.nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf |title=Lager d'Italia - Il coraggio che non abbiamo |author=Paolo Rumiz, Moni Ovadia |publisher=[[La Repubblica]]|date=2008-04-13 |accessdate=2012-03-12}}</ref> She researches [[Italy|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.
'''Alessandra Kersevan''' (born 18 December 1950) is a [[historian]], author and editor living and working in [[Udine]].<ref name="coraggio">{{cite web |url=http://www.nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf |title=Lager d'Italia - Il coraggio che non abbiamo |author=Paolo Rumiz, Moni Ovadia |publisher=[[La Repubblica]] |date=2008-04-13 |access-date=2012-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713201914/http://nutrimenti.net/public/Kersevan_Repubblica.pdf |archive-date=2014-07-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
She researches [[Italy|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==
==Research==
Her research that has been confirmed by the documents found in British archives by the British historian [[Effie Pedaliu]] and by the Italian historians Costantino Di Sante<ref>Di Sante, Costantino (2005) [http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=15 Italiani senza onore: I crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941-1951)], Ombre Corte, Milano. ([http://www.webcitation.org/6BQse29u2 Archived by WebCite®])</ref> and Davide Conti,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odradek.it/Schedelibri/criminalidiguerra.html |title=Criminali di guerra Italiani |author=Conti, Davide |publisher=Odradek Edizioni|year=2011 |accessdate=2012-10-14}}</ref> 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.<ref name="pedaliu">[[Effie G. H. Pedaliu]] (2004) [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4141408?uid=3739008&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698766073667 Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48.] ''Journal of Contemporary History''. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529 (JStor.org preview)</ref> In the collective memory of the Italian public and media this has led to [[historical revisionism]], in particular concerning post-war [[foibe massacres]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senzasoste.it/anniversari/le-foibe-fra-mito-e-realta-intervista-ad-alessandra-kersevan |title=Article |publisher=Senza Soste|date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2012-03-09}}</ref> [[Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], [[Greece]] and [[Ethiopia]] requested [[extradition]] of 1,200 Italian war criminals who however never saw anything like Nurnberg trial, because the British government with the beginning of [[cold war]] saw in [[Pietro Badoglio]] a guarantee of an [[anti-communist]] post-war [[Italy]].<ref name="pedaliu"/><ref>Rory, Carroll (2003) [http://www.webcitation.org/65gfcjMKT Italy's bloody secret. (Archived by WebCite®)], [[The Guardian]], London, UK, June 25</ref>
Her research (confirmed by the documents found in British archives by the British historian [[Effie Pedaliu]] and by the Italian historians Costantino Di Sante<ref>Di Sante, Costantino (2005) [http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=15 Italiani senza onore: I crimini in Jugoslavia e i processi negati (1941-1951)], Ombre Corte, Milano. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20060206175743/http://www.ombrecorte.it/more.asp?id=15 Archived by WebCite®])</ref> and Davide Conti<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.odradek.it/Schedelibri/criminalidiguerra.html |title=Criminali di guerra Italiani |author=Conti, Davide |publisher=Odradek Edizioni|year=2011 |access-date=2012-10-14}}</ref>) 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.<ref name="pedaliu">[[Effie G. H. Pedaliu]] (2004) [https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4141408?uid=3739008&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=47698766073667 Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48.] ''Journal of Contemporary History''. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529 (JStor.org preview)</ref> In the collective memory of the Italian public and media this has led to [[historical revisionism]], in particular concerning post-war [[foibe massacres]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senzasoste.it/anniversari/le-foibe-fra-mito-e-realta-intervista-ad-alessandra-kersevan |title=Article |publisher=Senza Soste|date=2010-02-10 |access-date=2012-03-09}}</ref> [[Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]], Greece and [[Ethiopia]] requested [[extradition]] of {{formatnum:1200}} 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.<ref name="pedaliu"/><ref>Rory, Carroll (2003) [https://web.archive.org/web/20061005113751/http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/itaimp1.html Italy's bloody secret. (Archived by WebCite®)], ''[[The Guardian]]'', London, UK, June 25</ref>


In the 1950s, two Italian film-makers were jailed<ref>[http://www.webcitation.org/65gfcjMKT Rory, Carroll. Italy's bloody secret. The Guardian. (Archived by WebCite®)], [[The Guardian]], London, UK, June 25, 2003</ref> for depicting the [[Italian invasion of Greece]]. Kersevan attributes this to historic revisionism.<ref name="revisionism">Alessandra Kersevan (2008) ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''. Kappavu, Udine.</ref> She compares historic revisionism in Italy to the situation in France where she notes historic mythology is [[deconstruction|deconstructed]]. She gives the French people's understanding of the [[Vichy France|Vichy period]] as an example.
In the 1950s, two Italian film-makers were jailed<ref>[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®)], [[The Guardian]], London, UK, June 25, 2003</ref> for depicting the [[Italian invasion of Greece]].
Kersevan attributes this to historic revisionism.<ref name="revisionism">Alessandra Kersevan (2008) ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''. Kappavu, Udine.</ref>
She compares historic revisionism in Italy to the situation in France where she notes historic mythology is [[deconstruction|deconstructed]].
She gives the French people's understanding of the [[Vichy France|Vichy period]] as an example{{clarify|date=March 2016}}.


In 2003, Italian media reported that [[Silvio Berlusconi]] had said, "[[Benito Mussolini]] only "used to send people on vacation"<ref name="IHT">[http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/29/camp_ed3_.php ''Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia''], 2003, [[International Herald Tribune]]</ref> This gave weight and illustrated the thesis made by Kersevan.
In 2003, Italian media reported that [[Silvio Berlusconi]] had said, "[[Benito Mussolini]] only used to send people on vacation".<ref name="IHT">[http://www.iht.com/articles/2003/10/29/camp_ed3_.php ''Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia''], 2003, ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''</ref> This gave weight and illustrated the thesis made by Kersevan.

==The censorship and the revisionistic accusations of "negationism"==
Italian right-wing politicians and refugees associations have asked for censorship against Kersevan and her staff, and a former Minister of the Republic could safely address her on the 1st Channell of the State TV in February 2012 as contiguous to the Soviet KGB when she contested a photo to be attributed to the slaughering of Italians whereas it was, actually, a group of Italian soldiers gunning Slovene civilian hostages on 31 July 1942<ref name="Italian_manipulation_2012">{{cite web|url= http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/rai-manipuliral-s-fotografijo-slovenskih-talcev/276815 |title=Italian state TV has been manipulating with the photo of Slovene hostages (Slovene: RAI manipuliral s fotografijo slovenskih talcev|publisher=[[RTV Slovenia]] |date=2012-02-14 |accessdate=2012-03-09}}</ref> in the [[Slovenia]]n village [[Dane, Loška dolina|Dane]] during occupation by the Fascist Italy, at the time a common event in many other villages in [[Province of Ljubljana]] ordered by the [[Mario Roatta]] in his "Circolare 3C".<ref>[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]</ref>


==The 2012 diplomatic protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia==
==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, Loška dolina|Dane]]<ref name="Italian_manipulation_2012">{{cite web|url= http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/rai-manipuliral-s-fotografijo-slovenskih-talcev/276815 |title=Italian state TV has been manipulating with the photo of Slovene hostages (Slovene: RAI manipuliral s fotografijo slovenskih talcev|publisher=[[RTV Slovenia]] |date=2012-02-14 |access-date=2012-03-09}}</ref> and claimed that it showed the opposite. Killings like these, ordered by Italian general [[Mario Roatta]], were widespread during the Fascist occupation of Slovenia.<ref>[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]</ref> 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]].<ref>{{cite news | last1 = Smargiassi | first1 = Michele | date = 23 March 2012 | title = Non dire falsa testimonianza | trans-title = You shall not give false testimony | url = http://smargiassi-michele.blogautore.repubblica.it/2012/03/23/non-dire-falsa-testimonianza/comment-page-1/ | newspaper = [[La Repubblica]] | language = Italian | location = [[Rome]] | access-date = 15 February 2017 }}</ref>
In February 2012, an Italian TV talk show host, [[Bruno Vespa]] televised a photograph depicting Italian troops killing Slovene civilians suggesting the situation was reversed. Kersevan, a guest on the show objected but Vespa did not apologise. A protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the [[Republic of Slovenia]] followed.<ref name="Ministry_of_foreign_RS_RTV_SLO">{{cite web|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/mzz-obsoja-potvarjanje-zgodovine-italijanske-televizije/276909 |title=Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia protests against the falsification of historical facts|publisher=[[RTV Slovenia]] |date=2012-02-15 |accessdate=2012-03-09}}</ref><ref>[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"], emitted by the Italian state-owned TV station [[RAI]], official website</ref>
A protest by the Ministry of foreign affairs of the [[Republic of Slovenia]] followed.<ref name="Ministry_of_foreign_RS_RTV_SLO">{{cite web|url=http://www.rtvslo.si/svet/mzz-obsoja-potvarjanje-zgodovine-italijanske-televizije/276909 |title=Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia protests against the falsification of historical facts|publisher=[[RTV Slovenia]] |date=2012-02-15 |access-date=2012-03-09}}</ref><ref>[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"], emitted by the Italian state-owned TV station [[RAI]], official website</ref>


==Published works==
==Published works==
*1995 ''Porzûs. Dialoghi sopra un processo da rifare'', Kappavu, Udine, 215 pp, ISBN 9788889808 about [[Porzûs massacre]]
*1995 ''Porzûs. Dialoghi sopra un processo da rifare'', Kappavu, Udine, 215 pp, {{ISBN|9788889808}} about [[Porzûs massacre]]
*2003 ''Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943'', Comune di Gonars/Kappavu, Udine, 389 pp, ISBN 9788889808<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.webcitation.org/668292EmB |title=Pulizia etnica all\'italiana |author=Alberto Bobbio |publisher=[[Famiglia Cristiana]]|date=2004-02-08 |accessdate=2012-03-12}} (Archived by WebCite®)</ref> about [[Gonars concentration camp]]
*2003 ''Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943'', Comune di Gonars/Kappavu, Udine, 389 pp, {{ISBN|9788889808}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Slovenia/Pulizia-etnica-all-italiana |title=Pulizia etnica all\'italiana |author=Alberto Bobbio |publisher=[[Famiglia Cristiana]] |date=2004-02-08 |access-date=2012-03-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612172749/http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Slovenia/Pulizia-etnica-all-italiana |archive-date=June 12, 2011 }} (Archived by WebCite®)</ref> about [[Gonars concentration camp]]
*2008 ''Lager italiani : Pulizia etnica e campi di concentramento Fascisti per civili Jugoslavi 1941-1943'', Nutrimenti edizioni, Rome, 288 pp, ISBN 8888389946<ref name="coraggio"/>
*2008 ''Lager italiani : Pulizia etnica e campi di concentramento Fascisti per civili Jugoslavi 1941-1943'', Nutrimenti edizioni, Rome, 288 pp, {{ISBN|8888389946}}<ref name="coraggio"/>


==Editorial and co-editor contributions==
==Editorial and co-editor contributions==
*2008 ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 |title=Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica|publisher=Kappa Vu |accessdate=2012-03-09}}</ref>
*2008 ''Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 |title=Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica |publisher=Kappa Vu |access-date=2012-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419201236/http://www.kappavu.it/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=240 |archive-date=2012-04-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
*[[Foibe killings]]
*[[Foibe massacres]]
*[[Italian war crimes]]


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 15:43, 8 June 2024

Alessandra Kersevan
Born (1950-12-18) 18 December 1950 (age 73)
Alma materUniversity of Trieste
Scientific career
FieldsContemporary history
InstitutionsUdine, Italy

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

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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 1,200 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[clarification needed].

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

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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

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  • 1995 Porzûs. Dialoghi sopra un processo da rifare, Kappavu, Udine, 215 pp, ISBN 9788889808 about Porzûs massacre
  • 2003 Un campo di concentramento fascista. Gonars 1942-1943, Comune di Gonars/Kappavu, Udine, 389 pp, ISBN 9788889808[15] about Gonars concentration camp
  • 2008 Lager italiani : Pulizia etnica e campi di concentramento Fascisti per civili Jugoslavi 1941-1943, Nutrimenti edizioni, Rome, 288 pp, ISBN 8888389946[1]

Editorial and co-editor contributions

[edit]
  • 2008 Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica[16]

See also

[edit]

References

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  1. ^ a b Paolo Rumiz, Moni Ovadia (2008-04-13). "Lager d'Italia - Il coraggio che non abbiamo" (PDF). La Repubblica. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-13. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
  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. ^ Conti, Davide (2011). "Criminali di guerra Italiani". Odradek Edizioni. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  4. ^ a b Effie G. H. Pedaliu (2004) Britain and the 'Hand-over' of Italian War Criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48. Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 39, No. 4, Special Issue: Collective Memory, pp. 503-529 (JStor.org preview)
  5. ^ "Article". Senza Soste. 2010-02-10. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  6. ^ Rory, Carroll (2003) Italy's bloody secret. (Archived by WebCite®), The Guardian, London, UK, June 25
  7. ^ Rory, Carroll. Italy's bloody secret. The Guardian. (Archived by WebCite®), The Guardian, London, UK, June 25, 2003
  8. ^ Alessandra Kersevan (2008) Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica. Kappavu, Udine.
  9. ^ Survivors of war camp lament Italy's amnesia, 2003, International Herald Tribune
  10. ^ "Italian state TV has been manipulating with the photo of Slovene hostages (Slovene: RAI manipuliral s fotografijo slovenskih talcev". RTV Slovenia. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  11. ^ 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. ^ Smargiassi, Michele (23 March 2012). "Non dire falsa testimonianza" [You shall not give false testimony]. La Repubblica (in Italian). Rome. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Ministry of foreign affairs of the Republic of Slovenia protests against the falsification of historical facts". RTV Slovenia. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  14. ^ Talk show "Il giorno del ricordo - Porta a Porta", emitted by the Italian state-owned TV station RAI, official website
  15. ^ Alberto Bobbio (2004-02-08). "Pulizia etnica all\'italiana". Famiglia Cristiana. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved 2012-03-12. (Archived by WebCite®)
  16. ^ "Foibe - Revisionismo di stato e amnesie della repubblica". Kappa Vu. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19. Retrieved 2012-03-09.