Cold War and The British Role in Non-extradition
Yugoslavia requested Roatta's extradition to no avail, and he along with the other Italian war criminals were never tried, as their German counterparts were at Nuremberg, for the crimes they had committed because the British wanted to bolster the remnants of the fascist government as a guarantee for an anti-communist post-war Italy.
The Italian public and media largely repressed their collective memory of the atrocities committed during the War, which led to historical amnesia and eventually to historical revisionism - two Italian film-makers were jailed in the 1950s for depicting the Italian invasion of Greece.
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