Quando e perché l’Italia processò la Resistenza

From 1948 to the early Sixties, in the courtrooms of the new democratic Italy, a criminalization of the Resistance took place, destined to have a strong effect for a long time on the civil conscience of the Nation. The post-war judiciary system, largely compromised by the fascist regime, judged as murderers, terrorists, criminals those partisans who engaged in the guerrilla warfare against the Nazi-fascism, developed above all in the North of the Peninsula between 1943 and 1945. The trial of the Resistance celebrated by the courts after the radiant dawn of April 25th continued to influence public debate for decades, disseminating distortions, manipulations, myths and tendentious and instrumental cliches which ended up being commonly accepted by public opinion. In the political diary of the years 1944-1945 published at the end of December 1945, Giulio Andreotti, a very close collaborator of the Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi, analysed the painful existence of the Governments formed by the National Liberation Committee.