Consequences of The War
Following the end of the civil war, many soldiers, executives and sympathizers of the fascist Repubblica Sociale were subjected to quick show trials and executed. Others were killed even without a proper trial. Civilians were killed too and among them there were also people who were wrongly accused of collaborationism by people who wanted to take revenge on them because they had private reasons to hate them. Ministry of Interior Mario Scelba said the victims of these executions were 1,732, but historians dispute this estimate. German historian Hans Woller writes about 12,060 killed in 1945 and 6,027 in 1946. Ferruccio Parri said in an interview that there were about 30,000 victims.
Violence decreased after an amnesty was issued on behalf of the Italian governament with the so-called Togliatti amnesty in 1946.
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