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- Title
«La guerra è una brutta bestia e non andrebbe mai fatta, ci si trova sotto le bombe con la paura di morire e ci si trova in postazione per ammazzare».
- Authors
Guerra, Nicola
- Abstract
Through the method of oral history, this paper examines the story of twenty Italian Waffen-SS volunteers, and reconstructs the experience of war and their relationships with death and destiny. The historical analysis, complemented by that analysis of linguistic and narrative styles adopted by the respondents, offers a framework far removed from the prevailing neo-fascist and Resistance reconstructions, which tend, according to the different ideological perspective, to either demonize or enhance the experience of Italians in the élite army of the Third Reich. The story the respondents related shows a strong correlation between war, death -- both the fear of receiving death and the suffering of having to inflict it on the enemy -- and the fate, that allows a glimpse of deep concepts of volunteers, such as the role of individuals within the nation's and universal history, and the relationship between fate and free will.
- Subjects
GERMANY; WAFFEN-SS; WORLD War II; WORLD War II -- Psychological aspects; DEATH &; psychology; ITALIANS; VOLUNTARY military service; FREE will &; determinism
- Publication
Chronica Mundi, 2013, Vol 6-8, Issue 1-3, p205
- ISSN
2239-7515
- Publication type
Article