Vincenzo Mario Palmieri

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Vincenzo Palmieri in Katyn (1943)
Vincenzo Palmieri in the commission (4th from left, 1943)
Signatures of the commission members on April 30, 1943

Vincenzo Mario Palmieri (born July 16, 1899 in Brescia ; died December 23, 1994 in Naples ) was an Italian forensic doctor and politician. He worked in Katyn in 1943 as a member of the International Medical Commission in the autopsy of the victims of the Katyn massacre .

Life

Vincenzo Palmieri studied medicine in Naples and specialized in forensic medicine after completing his doctorate in 1922 . He also studied in Lyon , Vienna and Strasbourg , as well as with Fritz Straßmann in Berlin . In 1927 he became a teaching assistant in Naples. From 1936 to 1939 he headed the Forensic Medicine Institute at the University of Sassari . From 1942 he was a full professor at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Naples and worked there until 1974. He published 289 scientific journal articles.

Palmieri was appointed a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina on June 5, 1940 . He was temporarily president of the Società Italiana di Medicina legale .

When the German Foreign Ministry asked the Italian government to send a member of the International Medical Commission to the autopsy of the victims of the Katyn massacre in April 1943 , Palmieri was named, who set out for Berlin on Easter Sunday, April 25th. The commission worked in Katyn from April 28-30, 1943 and came to the conclusion that the Poles had been shot in the Soviet Union in 1940. The report was handed over to Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti in Berlin .

After the war, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) tried to brand him as a collaborator with the Germans and to discredit him because of his participation in the medical commission with reference to the report of the Burdenko commission drawn up by the Soviet government in 1944 .

Like the other doctors questioned, Palmieri repeated in 1952 in Frankfurt am Main before the Madden Commission of the US House of Representatives that the Poles had not been murdered by the Germans.

As a candidate for Democrazia Cristiana , he was elected mayor of Naples on October 10, 1962, replacing the popular businessman Achille Lauro , who was the candidate of monarchist and other nationalist groups. Palmieri gave up the office on July 30, 1963.

Fonts (selection)

  • Fasti napoletani nello sviluppo dell'antropologia criminale, dai tempi andati a quelli attuali . In: Quaderni di criminologia clinica , 1970, pp. 269-279.
  • Dall'assicurazione alla sicurezza sociale . Rome: Inam., 1957
  • Medicina legale canonistica . Naples: Morano, 1955
  • Risultati dell'inchiesta nella foresta di Katyn , in La vita italiana , No. 364, July XXI, 1943
  • Medicina forense . 2 volumes. Naples: Morano, 1936
  • L'alcolismo come problema medico-legal . Milan: Ies., 1933

literature

  • Report - Information on the Katyn Forest Incident , US National Archives NARA.
  • Luigia Melillo: La figura di Vincenzo Palmieri (1899-1994) , in: Luigia Melillo (ed.): Katyn. Una verità storica negata. La perizia di VM Palmieri . Naples 2009 PDF
  • Antonio Di Fiori: Vincenzo Mario Palmieri et les polémiques à Naples autour des expertises médico-légales de Katyn , in: Delphine Debons, Antoine Fleury & Jean Feançois Pitteloud (eds.): Katyn et la Suisse: Experts et expertises mèdicales dans les crises humanitaires . Actes du Colloque international Genève, 18-21 avril 2007 . Geneva: Georg, 2009 ISBN 978-2-8257-0959-7 pp. 127–154

Web links

Commons : Vincenzo Mario Palmieri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Vincenzo Mario Palmieri at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Report - Information on the Katyn Forest Incident , US National Archives NARA.
  3. ↑ Claudia Weber : War of the perpetrators. The Katyn mass shootings. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2015, p. 394f.
  4. ↑ Claudia Weber: War of the perpetrators. The Katyn mass shootings. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2015, p. 378
  5. ↑ Generoso Picone: I napolitani . Rome / Bari 2005, p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Palmieri, Vincenzo Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian forensic doctor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1994
Place of death Naples