EXTRAORDINARY AND MILITARY JUSTICE PROJECT

As part of the initiatives promoted since 2016 on the subject of extraordinary and military justice for war crimes and collaborationism committed against civilians in Northwest Italy, Istoreto launched, in June 2019, the Extraordinary and military justice project, which extends research to the national sphere and international comparison. The Project proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of extraordinary and military justice, through the participation of historians and jurists from Italian and foreign cultural institutions and universities, and the involvement of judicial, military and civil administrations. In addition to archival and research activities, seminars, conferences and publications are planned.

Among the objectives of the Project are the acquisition, census and study of military judicial archival sources in Italy and the creation of digital archives regarding the trials of German war criminals and Italian collaborationists.  For the latter, the research proposes the comparison of the military judicial sources with those coming from the Extraordinary Courts of Assizes, starting from the trials held by the Court of Turin between 1945 and 1947 and by the Military Court of Turin from the post-war period until the 1990s-2000s, currently the object of analytical filing aimed at the creation, on the ARCHOS system, of a General Collection of judicial sources for Nazi and Fascist crimes committed against the civilian population of Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Lombardy and Liguria.

The research is also aimed at the reconstruction of the history of the Italian military judiciary from 1914 until the reform of 1981, with particular regard to the staff, to the composition of the territorial courts and of the superior military courts, to the juridical culture and to the professional cultures of military magistrates in the crucial passages of contemporary Italian history (between the two wars, during the Italian social republic, from 1945 until the reform of 1981). The research is also extended to all justice operators, starting from lawyers and their role in post-war justice.

Finally, the project aims to place the so-called Italian transitional justice in an international context, by comparing it with the experience of other European countries (starting with France and Germany), with regard to purge practices, criminal proceedings, archives of judicial sources, legal and professional cultures.

The Project is coordinated by Maria Di Massa (Istoreto, lawyer in Turin) and has the following collaborators: Nicola Adduci (Istoreto), Michele Albertini (Istoreto), Barbara Berruti (Istoreto), Luciano Boccalatte (Istoreto), Idalgo Cantelli (University of Florence), Paolo Caroli (University of Turin), Lidia Celli (Université d’Urbino), Chiara Colombini (Istoreto), Francesco Corniani (University of Cologne), Leonardo Pompeo D’Alessandro (University of Milan), Nicolò Da Lio (University of Padua), Barbara De Luna (University of Bologna), Marco De Paolis (Procuratore Generale Militare presso la Corte Militare d’Appello), Patrizia Dogliani (University of Bologna), Greta Fedele (Italian Institute for Historical Studies of Naples), Filippo Focardi (University of Padua), Giovanni Focardi (University of Padua), Paolo Fonzi (University of Eastern Piedmont), Bianca Gaudenzi (Germanic Historical Institute of Rome/University of Konstanz/University of Cambridge), Federico Goddi (University of Padua), Antonio Grilli (University e-campus Como/Rome), Lutz Klinkhammer (German Historical Institute of Rome), Nicola Labanca (University of Siena), Susanna Maruffi (Aned-Turin), Antonella Meniconi (Sapienza University of Rome), Leonardo Mineo (University of Turin), Lucio Monaco (Aned-Turin), Guido Neppi Modona (Vice President Emeritus of the Constitutional Court, Istoreto), Cecilia Nubola (Italian-Germanic Institute of Trento- FBK), Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi (University of Padua), Paolo Pezzino (Ferruccio Parri National Institute), Pierpaolo Rivello (Procuratore Generale Militare Emerito presso la Corte di Cassazione, lawyer in Turin), François Rouquet (University of Caen-Normandie), Toni Rovatti (University of Bologna), Daniele Sacco Zirio (University of Padua), Fabio Verardo (University of Trieste), Fabrice Virgili (University Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne).

The Project has the patronage of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute as well as the adhesion of: Italian-German Historical Institute (ISIG)- Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) of Trento; National Association of Former Deportees (ANED) – Turin Section; University Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne – Identités, Relations Internationales et Civilisations de l’Europe (UMR SIRICE); University of Caen-Normandie – Histoire-Territoire-Mémoire (HISTEMÉ).

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Il programma del ciclo di seminari

Gli abstract degli interventi

• Slide dell’intervento di Fabrice Virgili
• Slide dell’intervento di Thomas Vaisset
• Slide dell’intervento di Daniele Sacco Zirio
• Slide dell’intervento di Edoardo Greppi
• Slide dell’intervento di Giovanni Focardi e Michele Albertini
• Slide dell’intervento di Francesco Corniani
• Slide dell’intervento di Nicolò Da Lio
• Slide dell’intervento di Maria Di Massa
• Slide dell’intervento di Idalgo Cantelli
• Esempio di database presentato da Lucio Monaco