Carlo Gentile

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Carlo Gentile (born March 11, 1960 in Imperia ) is an Italian modern historian . He is particularly concerned with the German-Italian war past between 1943 and 1945.

Scientific career

Gentile studied Medieval and Modern History, Jewish Studies and Historical Auxiliary Sciences at the University of Cologne , where he obtained his Magister Artium in 1994 . His master's thesis dealt with the German politics of repression in occupied Italy from 1943 to 1945. From 1995 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne and editor of the reference book Encounters with Jewish Culture in North Rhine-Westphalia. At the same time he worked from 1995 to 1996 on a project about the Italian resistance movement Resistancea .

Gentile since 1998 historical, independent expert in criminal court proceedings NS - war crimes before courts in Germany, Italy and Canada. As such, he worked for various public prosecutors in the criminal proceedings against the former Gestapo officer Theo Saevecke regarding the events at Piazzale Loreto in Milan in August 1944 and in the trial against Friedrich Engel in the case of the massacre at the Turchino Pass .

From 2000 to 2004 he worked on scientific projects at the University of Pisa and the German Historical Institute in Rome . He was commissioned by the Italian government to conduct research into the whereabouts of the library of the Jewish community in Rome, which was stolen by German occupation troops in 1943 . Since 2005 he has been a research assistant at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies with a focus on the history of the Shoah and the history of modern Israel . In 2008 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cologne. Since 2009 he has also been a member of the German-Italian Historical Commission , which deals with the German-Italian war past. For the Istituto nazionale Ferruccio Parri in Milan he worked on the creation of a database that was co-financed by the German Federal Government and lists all the Nazi war crimes committed in Italy between July 1943 and May 1945 and those of the allied Italian fascists , including at least one Fatalities were to be mourned. It was published online in 2016.

His dissertation was published in 2012 under the title Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War. Italy published 1943–1945 and, due to the detailed presentation, is considered a fundamental work on German war crimes in Italy.

Publications (selection)

  • as editor with Lutz Klinkhammer and Steffen Prauser: I nazisti. I rapporti tra Italia e Germania nelle fotografie dell'Istituto Luce. Editori riuniti, Rome 2003.
  • as editor: Le stragi nazifasciste in Toscana 1943–45. Carocci, Rome 2005.
  • as editor: La Wehrmacht in Toscana. Immagini di un esercito di occupazione (1943–44) , Carocci, Rome 2006.
  • Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in partisan war. Italy 1943-1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8 (Cologne, Univ., Diss., 2008).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b University of Cologne - Dr. Carlo Gentile. In: judaistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Franco Valeriani: Bellona 7 October 1943. Il culmine di una tragedia chiamata guerra. Piccola Italia, Vitulazio 2015, ISBN 978-88-97403-14-2 , p. 101.
  3. ↑ Atlante delle Stragi naziste e fasciste in Italia. In: straginazifasciste.it. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Increasing escalation: About Carlo Gentile's study “Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War. Italy 1943–1945 ”. In: literaturkritik.de. Retrieved September 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gentile, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian modern historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Imperia