“Italian Schindler” was Nazi collaborator

"Talijaski Schindler" bio je suradnik nacista

The man often called the Italian Schindler and credited with helping to save 5,000 Jews during the Holocaust, appears to have actually been a Nazi collaborator.

Čovjek,  kojega su nazivali talijanskim Schindlerom i pripisivali mu da je spasio 5.000 Židova u vrijeme Holokausta, je zapravo  bio  nacistički suradnik. 

Giovanni Palatucci, koji je u vrijeme rata bio policijski službenik, bio je slavljen u Izraelu, New Yorku i Italiji  gdje su trgovi i ulice nosile njegovo ime, a u Vatikanu ga je papa Ivan Pavao II proglasio  blaženim- korak do proglašenja svetim.

Ali u  United States Holocaust Museum u  Washingtonu, je priča o njegovom herojstvu maknuta sa izložbe ,  nakon što su pronašli nove činjenice koje su sugerirale  da nije uopće bio heroj , nego entuzijastički nacistički suradnik  uključen u deportaciju Židova u Auschwitz.

Pismo je stiglo direktoru muzreja od Centro Primo Levi u New Yorku sa podacima istraživanja  znanstvebika i gotovo 700 dokumenata koji su zaključili da je u toku šest godina  Palatucci  bio egzekutior rasnih zakona koje je donijela Musolinijeva socijalistička republika i da je surađivao s nacistima.

Natalia Indrimi, the executive director of the Centro Primo Levi, said historians have been able to review these supposedly destroyed records in the Rijeka State Archives.

What they show, said Dr. Indrimi, who coordinated the research, is that Fiume had only 500 Jews by 1943, and that most of them — 412, or about 80 percent — ended up at Auschwitz, a higher percentage than in any other Italian city. The research on Palatucci found that rather than being police chief, he was the adjunct deputy commissary responsible for enforcing Fascist Italy’s racial laws. What’s more, his deportation to Dachau in 1944 was not related to saving Jews but to German accusations of embezzlement and treason for passing plans for the postwar independence of Fiume to the British.

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