Here was the description at Yahoo movies:
Four soldiers from the army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they are fighting, they discover humanity in the small Tuscan village of St. Anna di Stazzema.
There you go, America treats blacks worse than fascist Italy under Mussolini.
It is about the massacre of innocent men, women, and childen (even unborn babies, which even the ancient Romans would not kill).
I can't imagine what would SAVE the lives of FOUR SOLDIERS when a village is being massacred.
In the case of the attack on the Indian village that Father Sebastien Rale was in in 1724 (August 23, I think), there were 7 Indian warriors that died trying to saved the priest.
In an attack on the village a year or two earlier, the Indian Warriors (or Braves) held back the attackers so that Father Rale could escape as well as women and children...
It does not sound like these American Soldiers tried to fight the German Nazis who were about to massacre the village...
Oh well, in one case (Father Rale in 1724) we are talking about Native Americans defending their village.
In the Spike Lee film, we are talking about African American soldiers in a small Italian village...