title: Italian Militaries in the USSR during the Second World War. Objectives of the Campaign and Negotiations in the Post-War Period
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metadata.value: Giusti, Maria Teresa
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-05T19:08:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-05T19:08:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Giusti M. T. Italian Militaries in the USSR during the Second World War. Objectives of the Campaign and Negotiations in the Post-War Period. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1190–1205.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.410
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35523
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Italy’s participation in the war against the USSR was dictated by at least three reasons: the
  common ideology which Mussolini and Hitler shared; Mussolini’s aspiration to revise the European
  order in the Mediterranean area, to the detriment of France and Great Britain; the goal
  of supplying Italy with the Russian raw material. The article examines the behavior of the Italian
  troops towards the Soviet war prisoners and the local population during the occupation
  from July 1941 to winter 1942–1943, which also depended on these reasons. Since 1944 some
  countries occupied by Italian forces, such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, had started asking
  the Italian government for the extradition of Italian alleged war criminals to be judged by
  local courts. In 1944, on the grounds of the reports produced by state and local commissions,
  the list of alleged war criminals in response to the USSR’s requests was limited to ten militaries
  who had been repatriated after the defeat. Initially the USSR was intransigent, but afterwards
  began changing its tune, and finally Moscow proved less adamant in its accusations. This new
  attitude was connected to negotiations on handing over of Soviet citizens who stayed in Italy
  after the end of the war. This was most likely a contributing factor in persuading the Soviets to
  relax their demands on the matter of alleged Italian war criminals. The strategy was successful
  and, according to the Yalta conference, many Russian and Soviet citizens, who had left the
  Soviet Union, against their own will were handed over to the Soviet authorities facing a very
  uncertain fate.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Patriotic War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Italian occupation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fascist regime
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: war criminals
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Italian Militaries in the USSR during the Second World War. Objectives of the Campaign and Negotiations in the Post-War Period
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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