Germany to apologize to Italians (Fifty plus years too late)

Nando Times Online ^ | 4/14/02 | Tony Czuczka

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By TONY CZUCZKA, Associated Press

BERLIN (April 14, 2002 9:09 p.m. EDT) - In a long-delayed act of reconciliation, Germany's president heads off to Italy on Monday to commemorate the victims of a World War II massacre that has come to symbolize Nazi atrocities in that country.

President Johannes Rau's gesture this week coincides with new attempts by prosecutors to track down those who committed war crimes in occupied Italy.

Rau will be the first postwar German leader to visit Marzabotto, one of several mountain villages southwest of Bologna where Nazi SS troops who claimed they were pursuing resistance fighters killed more than 700 people between Sept. 28 and Oct. 1 of 1944

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Women and children were among the victims.

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Women and children were among the victims

The more things change the more they stay the same.

[Sir Gawain]

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[scouse]

As far as I know their last royalty was the Kaiser in WWI. Following that they became a republic.

[Commie Basher]

I think that like Germany, Israel and France, and many other nations, also dual chief executives.

A premier (or prime minister) and a president. The former is usually analogous to our Speaker of the House (but with some executive powers). The latter is either the real chief executive, or a figurehead, depending on the nation.

[gcruse]

Well, I guess I had better rethink the war. For some inexplicable reason, I thought Mussolini was part of the Axis and that Italy was a German ally.

[BMCDA]

Well, by that time they weren't allies any more.