Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre

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Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre
Massacre memorial sculpture
Location	Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy
Coordinates	43°58′27″N 10°16′25″E / 43.97417°N 10.27361°E / 43.97417; 10.27361
Date	12 August 1944
Target	Civilian villagers and refugees
Attack type	War crime, massacre
Deaths	~ 560 (130 were children)
Perpetrators	16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, 36th Brigata Nera Benito Mussolini

The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a German war crime,^[1][2][3] which was committed in the hill village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement during the Italian Campaign of World War II. On 12 August 1944, the Waffen-SS, with the help of the Italian paramilitary Brigate Nere, murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees, including more than a hundred children, and burned their bodies. These crimes have been defined as voluntary and organized acts of terrorism by the Military Tribunal of La Spezia and the highest Italian court of appeal.^[4][5]