An Italian police chief long celebrated for saving 5,000 Jews during World War II was in fact a Nazi collaborator, a New York-based institute that studies Italian Jewry said on Thursday.
Giovanni Palatucci, who died in the Dachau concentration camp in February 1945, aged 36, was regarded as Italy's answer to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved thousands of Jewish workers during the Holocaust.
Over the years he was honored by Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, and declared a martyr by Pope John Paul II, putting him on the path for beatification and sainthood.
But the Centro Primo Levi said fresh research it coordinated revealed that "Palatucci continued to work under the Germans and to provide information on the few Jews" in Fiume, where he was chief of police. Full story...
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Giovanni Palatucci, who died in the Dachau concentration camp in February 1945, aged 36, was regarded as Italy's answer to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved thousands of Jewish workers during the Holocaust.
Over the years he was honored by Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial, and declared a martyr by Pope John Paul II, putting him on the path for beatification and sainthood.
But the Centro Primo Levi said fresh research it coordinated revealed that "Palatucci continued to work under the Germans and to provide information on the few Jews" in Fiume, where he was chief of police. Full story...
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