Overview

• President Sergio Mattarella used a Quirinale message to condemn the SS role and ‘dishonorable fascist complicity’ in the August 12, 1944 massacre.
• He called Sant’Anna di Stazzema a “symbol of wartime horrors” and stressed that collective memory must keep consciences vigilant.
• Mattarella connected lessons from the 81st anniversary to today’s conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine to highlight the persistence of war’s ferocity.
• At the local ceremony, Genoa Mayor Silvia Salis delivered the official oration in Stazzema, welcomed by Mayor Maurizio Verona.
• Statements from Chamber Presidents Lorenzo Fontana and Ignazio La Russa diverged in explicit references to Nazi-fascist culpability.