From of December 18, 2010:
the first time in the courts. Tears and one request: "Punish those criminals'
from our correspondent Andrea Melosi
VERONA. Yesterday it snowed. As March 20, 1944. The day of horror to Cervarolo. Military tribunal in Verona in the courts Vince Santoro march 15 to testify in trial of Hans Georg Winkler, a former officer of the Division Hermann Goering and eleven other German soldiers accused of massacres of civilians on horseback in the Tuscan-Emilian committed between spring and summer 1944. E in questo tragico rosario c'è anche Cervarolo di Villa Minozzo dove il 20 marzo '44 ventiquattro uomini, compreso il parroco, furono trucidati. IL PROLOGO. Ma prima la ferocia nazista si era fermata a Monchio e in altri paesini del versante modenese. Così il primo a deporre è Ferruccio Pancani. All'epoca aveva 10 anni e abitava con la famiglia a Costrignano, poco fuori Monchio. Il 18 marzo tutti furono svegliati dal cannoneggiamento tedesco che arrivava da Montefiorino, Fuggirono verso i campi e i boschi poi verso mezzogiorno, credendo che tutto fosse finito rientrarono a casa, ma una pattuglia tedesca sorprese suo padre Giuseppe e altri 4 uomini. Messi al muro e subito fucilati: «Mio padre - ha detto - fu quasi decapitato con una raffica». Then swears and deposes Umberto Bernardi, Raffaele Abbati nephew, another fell. Recalls the stories her mother, the dead stacked like firewood before burial. NATALINA. I remember a girl of 13 years, so began the series of depositions of witnesses for Cervarolo. The girl has since Natalie Masters. Yesterday, for the first time in 66 years said the anguish of a lifetime: "I remember everything, ask me," he said with the frankness of a strong woman of the mountain. "The 19 Don Pigozzi warned all men to escape into the woods because the Germans were coming. So in the village are only women and children. Soldiers came and told us "do men go, there's nothing we will do." I believed it. The next morning the Germans came back, they began to throw down the doors and take everything. My father Sebastian wanted to hide in the attic. Do not do it, we told him, then you find and kill you. "
TRAGIC DECEPTION. One by one the men of Cervarolo are rounded up and taken to the farmyard. Do not kill them immediately, keep them there, standing in the cold, the whole day, lured to the end. Even Natalie: "The Germans told us, prepared to eat the stuff for your men to take with us in Germany. Poor things, with those parcels in hand, I see them again. " But Natalie soon realizes the situation: "Walking with mum and other women, we saw the bodies of two men lying in front of their home. " Ennio costs and Lino were father and son were killed in the morning. At dusk the Germans began burning houses and barns, "we heard bursts of machine gun and we fled into the woods. They shouted "kill us all". The next morning we returned. All died in the farmyard, there was also the parish priest, first beaten and then robbed. Around the houses burned. We had nothing, for years we have begged, but all have helped us. I am here to demand justice, because these people, these criminals are punished. You can not describe what we have done. " Talida. Talida Vannucci was 9 years old. "On the morning of March 20 when Mom looked out and saw the first Germans shouted to my father, John got up and escaped. But he stayed in bed because he was ill. My grandfather was Augustine in the barn instead. They took him away. From bullies entered the house, there were two machine guns. They opened the drawers and took all the stuff to eat. Then they got on the first floor and brought down dad. They also took a cutlery set and the watch pocket of his grandfather. They put everything in a helmet. " Like the other women and children, also was forced to leave talida Cervarolo. "But I rebelled, I wanted to stay close to Dad." Then we began to hear shooting and see the burning of homes. Since then, the fire scares me. Coat that I keep my father had found a button when it was exhumed. Oggi chiedo che per lui e gli altri sia fatta finalmente giustizia».
REGGIO. Sono passati 66 anni, ma riparlare di quei tragici giorni provoca ancora lacrime e singhiozzi tra i parenti delle vittime. Sul pullman c'è chi ha perso genitori, zii, nonni o cugini, tutte persone che portano nel cuore una forte sete di giustizia. Proprio per questo, viaggiano verso Verona con grande speranza, confidando che i loro cari possano essere in parte ricompensati da un'equa sentenza. Tra queste persone, una di quelle ad avere una tra le storie is the most touching Paola Fontana, 68. No longer lived in the area, lived for years in Viareggio, but retains a strong bond with Cervarolo where nell'eccidio, lost his grandfather and uncle of 56 and 32 years. At the time Paola was a little girl of two years and obviously can not remember what happened that day, but thanks to the notes of the family was able to reconstruct the full picture. "My mother - says she moved - I've always been told what happened. My father was almost the first to discover the corpses: scared, went to call his friend and together they discovered that among the dead there were also our loved ones. E 'already the third time I go to testify, it cost me a lot in terms of emotion and energy, and I do not know if I'll manage. But it is fair to conclude, also in deference to my mother, who suffered much and was very attached to my uncle John. Now I live far but this terrible fact keeps me tied to more Cervarolo Arcor. I trust that the process of reaching a conclusion, ours was a country of good people who had done nothing wrong, we all knew after the massacre and we are plunged into poverty. What gives me most trouble is that the authors of the massacre have not repented. " Great satisfaction at the developments that are taking the process was expressed by Italo Royal, one of the lawyers for the prosecution and professor at Zanelli: "After so much suffering on the part of country and great work of investigations, it comes to the accounts of witnesses who have experienced the events firsthand. I am satisfied not only for the position taken by the court, which is working fine, but for the fact that he has created a network among the different legal and Istoreco. I am also pleased that the boys have wanted to be close to me. For the defendants is only a matter of time, because they were pinned against eavesdropping. " (V)
VERONA. Paini Ines Rossi (pictured with her daughter) if they have went a few weeks ago to 96 years. It was the last widow of the martyrs of Cervarolo. But yesterday the military tribunal in Verona in his voice and his image appeared on the projection of a DVD presented by the prosecution Bruni. Against the screening panel has expressed a defense of the defendants, challenging the procedure. But in the end the court decided in favor of Santoro projection, because it conflicted with testimony given shortly before his daughter Anna (Read mild illness) at the time a child of just three years, since his testimony is based "solely or primarily on the lessons learned from his mother." On the DVD, the old lady (as he had previously told her daughter) recalls that the Germans kicked the buckets of milk she had just milked, the attempt of one of them to take her to a room, catching her husband and father in law Gaetano Pius. Ines also recalls the unexpected arrival of all the 19 Attilio Paini, the brother lived for some time in Genoa and has long lived in Genoa. With the family was in dispute for problen of money. The evening before his death he met with two soldiers. In the house said there was nothing to worry about, but before dawn on 20 left the house secretly. Many accuse him of being a spy for the Germans.
From Gazzetta di Modena of December 18, 2010
Palagi. Marked by a deep and poignant emotion the testimony yesterday to the process open to survivors of Verona dell'eccidio in March 1944 when the Nazis killed more than a hundred civilians, including Monchio, Susano, and Costrignano Savoniero. In the hearing yesterday, the first to testify was Ferruccio Pancani. At the time he was 10 and lived with his family to Costrignano. On March 18, all were awakened by gunfire that came from German Montefiorino, fled to the fields and woods around noon, thinking that everything was finished, they returned home, but a German patrol surprises his father Joseph, and four other men. Put on the wall and immediately shot: «Mio padre - ha detto - fu quasi decapitato con una raffica». Poi giura e depone Umberto Bernardi, nipote di Raffaele Abbati, altro caduto. Rievoca i racconti della madre, dei morti accatastati come fascine prima della sepoltura. Sono stati sentiti anche i superstiti di Cervarolo nel Reggiano, che ha pagato con molte vite quei giorni. «Le deposizioni rese ieri confermano in pieno l'impianto accusatorio» dice l'avvocato Ernesto D'Andrea che, insieme ai colleghi Vainer Magnani e Andrea Speranzoni, cura le decine di parti civili presenti al processo di Verona. «I testimoni - prosegue l'avvocato - hanno un ricordo nitido nell'identificare tra gli autori delle stragi i soldati tedeschi, alcuni dei quali ridevano mentre mettevano e ferro e fuoco paesi and hamlets, and remember the participation of military fascists'
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