Italian military internees in Stalag-352 Nazi camp in Masjukowshchyna (1943–1944)

  • Dzmitry V. Marozau Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2419-8184
  • Edoardo Bordignon Independent researcher, Sale, Italy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33581/2520-6338-2021-4-54-63

Abstract

The article analyses the Belarusian and foreign historiography of the problem of finding Italian internees in Masjukowshchyna in 1943–1944. The authors introduce new information into scientific circulation, relying on the personal archive of E. Bordignon, whose own grandfather was in Stalag-352 as a prisoner. The living conditions of the Italian prisoners of war are considered, as well as information about their further fate on the example of Domenico Arzani.

Author Biographies

Dzmitry V. Marozau, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

PhD (history); associate professor at the department of ethnology, museology and art history, faculty of history

Edoardo Bordignon, Independent researcher, Sale, Italy

PhD (economics)

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Published
2021-11-17
Keywords: Stalag-352, Masjukowshchyna, Italian military internees, Great Patriotic War, occupation, Soviet prisoners of war, victims of Nazism, places of memory, Minsk, local history, Memory, responsibility and future foundation
How to Cite
Marozau D. V., Bordignon E. Italian military internees in Stalag-352 Nazi camp in Masjukowshchyna (1943–1944) // Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 2021. 4. PP. 54-63.
Issue
No 4 (2021): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History
Section
Belarusian History

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