Aided by Italian fascist collaborators, Nazi troops killed hundreds of Marzabotto locals in reprisal for their support of partisan freedom fighters.
On Sunday morning, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeir went together to the site of the massacre for a commemoratory ceremony.
At the ceremony, the two leaders lay a wreath in memory of the victims.
Steinmeier said he would attend the commemoration with “deep humility.”
“The Marzabotto massacre is one of the many crimes of the SS and Wehrmacht committed in Italy. Crimes that, as we know, left deep wounds in Italy.”
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, led a memorial mass on Sunday in the Marzabotto church whose crypt holds the bodies of the civilians killed 80 years ago.
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