La questione degli Archivi di Rodi alla fine della presenza italiana in Dodecaneso

• Autores: Marco Clementi
• Localización: Nuova rivista storica, ISSN 0029-6236, Vol. 103, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 203-222
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • After the end of WWII, Dodecanese was set by the British Army. The Italianadministration, that collaborated with the Wehrmachtafter September 1943, wasarrested and deported. Only very few people were allowed to stay and work forthe British Military Administration. Among them, the former Podestàof Rhodes,Antonio Macchi, and the sergeant of the CarabinieriFrancesco Corletti, who triedto destroy –in collaboration with the Italian government –the most compromisingItalian documents, hiding the misdeeds of the past regime. Although they stated, thatthey had burned the most relevant documents, recent archival discoveries lead us todoubt their words.In 2013 a small group of scholars from Greece and Italy brought to light theimportant archive of the Royal Carabinieri Group –Special Central Office, hosted forall these years within the Rhodes police station. Founded in 1932, the archive preservesbureaucratic certificates, such as permits and authorizations, as well as confidentialreports, records of personal habits and their political views. The new archive containsabout 90,000 personal files that include information of a private nature on Italians,Greeks, Turks, Jews and foreigners who lived in Rhodes and on the other islands. Sincesome of the documents have, in part to do with Jewish citizens, the United StatesHolocaust Memorial Museum of Washington D.C. has expressed a large amount ofinterest in this archive, offering a grant in order to digitize part of it.As is shown in the paper, Corletti and Macchi over-exaggerated the level of theirauthorisation to access files kept within archives to Rome. For these reasons, it is difficultto state exactly, what had been destroyed by Macchi and Corletti in 1945-1947.Actually, thefact that they weren’t able to touch any important paper from the formerItalian administration is more than a suspicion. At the same time, one can underlinethe attitude of the new democratic Italy, that appears complicit in trying to coverevents and misdeeds of the Fascist Regime in Dodecanese.