https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Italian police chief long celebrated for saving 5,000 Jews during World War II may have in fact been a Nazi collaborator, according to a New York-based institute that studies Italian Jewry. https://www.thelocal.it/20130621/italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200 italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator Florence's Ponte Vecchio is one of the world’s most famous bridges. Rebuilt after a flood in 1345, it was the only bridge across the Arno that the escaping Germans did not destroy during the Second World War. Many put the bridge’s survival down to a Nazi official, as Stephen Caruso reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20160525/did-a-nazi-official-save-florences-ponte-vecchio-from-destruction-gerhard-wolf-second-world-war-italy Wed, 25 May 2016 09:00:16 +0200 did-a-nazi-official-save-florences-ponte-vecchio-from-destruction-gerhard-wolf-second-world-war-italy A rival politician who called the leader of Italy's Lega Nord a Nazi did not commit a crime in doing so, ruled a judge on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160513/its-not-a-crime-to-call-a-politician-a-nazi-rules-italian-judge Fri, 13 May 2016 17:10:18 +0200 its-not-a-crime-to-call-a-politician-a-nazi-rules-italian-judge Three fifteenth-century paintings which were stolen from the Prince of Luxembourg's Tuscan villa by Nazi forces in 1944 have been found in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20160418/italy-finds-three-masterpieces-nazis-looted-from-princes-villa Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:32:03 +0200 italy-finds-three-masterpieces-nazis-looted-from-princes-villa An Italian MEP who wore a Hitler-style moustache and gave a Nazi salute during a debate at which the German Chancellor Angela Merkel was present has been suspended and told to pay a €3,060 fine. https://www.thelocal.it/20151028/italian-mep-suspended-over-nazi-salute Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:49:01 +0100 italian-mep-suspended-over-nazi-salute German prosecutors said on Thursday they had dropped their probe into a 93-year-old former Nazi SS officer over a Second World War massacre in Italy because he suffers from dementia. https://www.thelocal.it/20150528/german-unfit-for-italy-war-crime-trial Thu, 28 May 2015 15:45:06 +0200 german-unfit-for-italy-war-crime-trial An Italian mayor has issued an apology after a tourism brochure promoting his town featured a photo of Nazi Heinrich Himmler, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.it/20150223/italian-town-puts-nazi-photo-in-tourism-brochure Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:07:00 +0100 italian-town-puts-nazi-photo-in-tourism-brochure Italy's constitutional court has ruled that victims of Nazi-era war crimes can sue Germany in Italian courts, rejecting a UN ruling and provoking a strong reaction from Berlin on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141024/italy-green-lights-nazi-victim-claims-against-germany Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:50:00 +0200 italy-green-lights-nazi-victim-claims-against-germany A 14th-century painting looted by Nazi troops from the Tuscan home of a US collector was put on display in Milan on Tuesday after being recovered by Italy's art police. https://www.thelocal.it/20140605/nazi-looted-medieval-painting-returns-to-italy Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:23:00 +0200 nazi-looted-medieval-painting-returns-to-italy Rome this week is celebrating the 70th anniversary since the city was liberated from the Nazis, on June 4th 1944, a moment described by Mayor Ignazio Marino as one of "uncontrollable joy" in the Italian capital. https://www.thelocal.it/20140604/rome-marks-70-years-since-nazi-liberation Wed, 04 Jun 2014 18:00:00 +0200 rome-marks-70-years-since-nazi-liberation Italian anti-establishment firebrand Beppe Grillo on Sunday likened European Commission presidency candidate Martin Schulz to a Nazi comic book character after Schulz compared him to Stalin and Hugo Chavez. https://www.thelocal.it/20140512/italys-grillo-makes-nazi-jibe-against-schulz Mon, 12 May 2014 10:20:00 +0200 italys-grillo-makes-nazi-jibe-against-schulz An Italian trade union's 'Hitler Prize' for the "person who has distinguished themselves in their work with animals" is a disturbing sign of "creeping Nazism" in the country, Italy's only female rabbi has told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20131108/outcry-sparked-over-hitler-animal-prize Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:45:00 +0100 outcry-sparked-over-hitler-animal-prize Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke, whose death sparked a legal dispute over what to do with his body, has been secretly buried in an Italian prison cemetery, La Repubblica reported on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131107/nazi-secretly-buried-in-italian-prison-cemetery Thu, 07 Nov 2013 11:08:47 +0100 nazi-secretly-buried-in-italian-prison-cemetery Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke will be buried in a secret location in Italy, his lawyer said on Saturday, following a long legal dispute after the former SS officer's death in Rome last week. https://www.thelocal.it/20131020/nazi-war-criminal-gets-secret-italian-funeral Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:22:00 +0200 nazi-war-criminal-gets-secret-italian-funeral As the debate continues over what should happen to the body of Erich Priebke, a Nazi who died in Rome on Friday, The Local takes a look at the life of the war criminal's lawyer. https://www.thelocal.it/20131017/the-lawyer-who-backed-a-war-criminal Thu, 17 Oct 2013 19:34:00 +0200 the-lawyer-who-backed-a-war-criminal Italian authorities appeared at a loss Thursday on what to do with the body of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died last week while living under house arrest for massacring 335 civilians. https://www.thelocal.it/20131017/italy-at-a-loss-over-dead-nazi-war-criminal Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:26:00 +0200 italy-at-a-loss-over-dead-nazi-war-criminal Italy appeared set to send the body of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke to Germany on Wednesday as it commemorated the 70th anniversary of a round-up of Jews from the historic Jewish quarter of Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20131016/italy-looks-set-to-send-nazis-body-to-germany Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:36:02 +0200 italy-looks-set-to-send-nazis-body-to-germany A town near Rome on Tuesday tried to ban the celebration of a Nazi war criminal's funeral by a Catholic traditionalist group on its territory. https://www.thelocal.it/20131015/catholic-group-to-host-nazi-funeral Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:54:00 +0200 catholic-group-to-host-nazi-funeral Former SS captain Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal who never showed remorse for a World War II massacre in Italy, died on Friday in Rome aged 100, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20131011/nazi-war-criminal-dies-in-italy Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:03:00 +0200 nazi-war-criminal-dies-in-italy Scuffles erupted over a bottle of champagne in Rome on Monday night, as family members gathered to celebrate the 100th birthday of one of the last living Nazi war criminals. https://www.thelocal.it/20130730/clashes-and-champagne-at-nazi-birthday-party Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:48:00 +0200 clashes-and-champagne-at-nazi-birthday-party