Finally, a third, numerically smaller group, comprising 40,517 people, according to currently available information, comprised those who were deported from Italy to the actual Nazi concentration camp system, run by the SS. It is appropriate to attribute the name of “deportees” solely to this group, thus restricting the meaning of the term “deportation” to that of “deportation to Nazi concentration and extermination camps”. This allows us to put every piece of the extremely complex overall puzzle – which brings together the experiences of the Italian men and women forcibly transferred to Germany following the armistice – in its right place.…
