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Foibe and the public use of history
Instrumental polemics do not help build a bridge between the European past and present. The outbursts on the tragedy of the Julian foibe continue with new protagonists, often going as far as literally wanting to abolish law 92/2004. I do not intend to dwell here on what bizarre relevance there is to wanting to overturn an almost unanimous vote of the Italian parliament in favor of a law that intended to connect the memory of the Julian-Dalmatian exiles with national and European history. Obviously, this law, which established the Day of Remembrance of the suffering experienced by the Italian populations of Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia cannot and should not be abolished on the basis of...
Defending the Day of Remembrance and the memory of the Foibe and the Exodus
Meeting debate on the foibe and the use of history held in Rome at the Nomentano high school in Rome yesterday afternoon, October 12, with an audience largely composed of teachers. Participants Eric Gobetti (author of the justificationist pamphlet "And then the foibe?"), Tomaso Montanari (new rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena but recent protagonist of statements contrary to the Day of Remembrance and justificationist) and Marino Micich (Society of Fiumani studies - Historical Archive Museum of Fiume). In essence Gobetti and Montanari reiterated their well-known position on the foibe, on the Julian Dalmatian exodus and above all for a good part of the conference the two aforementioned guests have...
Historic Justice for the People of the Exodus
Here we go again... Julian-Dalmatian exiles amid political disputes Article by Carlo Greppi in Domani “Foibe, fascism, Resistance. For many years we have been telling history backwards”: http://www.editorialedomani.it/idee/cultura/italia-storia-memoria-foibe-fascismo-resistenza-fratelli-ditalia-o0hijdmf Now the Day of Remembrance has, according to Gobetti and many others, become “The Day of Fascist Remembrance”... The legitimate debate on memories, however, must not prevail over the acquired right to remember at a national level the tragedies that struck the Julian-Dalmatian exile community. A mass of over 300.000 people who...
They want to cancel February 10th
A little book by a certain Eric Gobetti (which intends to minimize and even justify the foibe) and now the usual, stale manifesto of intellectuals, not even very qualified, aimed at asking the highest Italian institutions for yet another recognition of the war crimes committed by the Italian Army in Yugoslavia during the Second World War, appear to be two elements of the same, evident political plan: that of trying to erase from our civil calendar the Day of Remembrance, that February 10 (which is less and less a reason for public demonstrations today), established in 2004 so as not to forget the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian and Fiuman exodus. We who among the...
What is the point of books like "And then the foibe?"
Let's say it right away: I had read Eric Gobetti's L'occupazione allegra. Gli italiani in Yugoslavia (1941-1943) (Carocci, 2007) and Alleati del nemico. L'occupazione italiana in Yugoslavia (1941-1943), (Laterza, 2013) and, especially the second one, seemed to me to be a sufficiently balanced work, despite the author's political opinions, well known and certainly not hidden (he had himself photographed while giving a closed fist salute with a red handkerchief around his neck in front of the Yugoslavian flag, or pretending to go for a walk with the statue of Tito: that's his business...). So what about the foibe? (Laterza, 2021) was therefore a disappointment, although certainly not unexpected. Not a real essay but a simple...
But there are still those who think that Remembrance Day is a fascist memorial
Historian Eric Gobetti, who is photographed on Tito's site with a raised fist, claims that the term foibe "evokes barbaric scenarios" while "they were only burial sites" by Lucia Bellaspiga - 10/02/2021 Source: Avvenire "In the current European context, the equation between the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century (fascism and communism) is now a politically accepted fact, despite the many protests of scholars", laments Eric Gobetti, born in 1973, in the introduction to his book E allora le foibe?, published by Laterza close to the Day of Remembrance of the Foibe and the exodus of Italians from Istria, Fiume and Dalmatia. Incredibly, Gobetti does not seem to...
Inaccuracies and political attacks in “And then the foibe?”
From the provocative title “And then the foibe?” Eric Gobetti’s new pamphlet has caused a stir in the world of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles. The short read, full of historical and political inaccuracies, although the publisher is the authoritative Laterza, turns out to be a new justificationist position, seasoned with a fatalism that hurts those who have lived those events or have memories of them in their family. Once again, as in the worst historiography aimed at reducing the foibe to a reaction to fascist harassment, the narrative begins with the burning of the Balkans, without any reference to the tensions between Italians and Slavs fomented by the Empire...
Omissions and justifications in “And then the Foibe?”
Eric Gobetti's new publication "E Allora le Foibe?" has caused perplexity and dismay in the world of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles, since the announcement of the title. Reading the booklet confirmed the expectations: although it is published by a prestigious publisher like Laterza, it is a justificationist work, represented however as an effort to "understand" the murderous logic implemented by Tito's partisans. Once again the narration can be said to begin on July 13, 1920 with the burning of the Balkans in Trieste: there is no hint of "understanding" the tensions between Italians and Slavs fomented by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in its...
The book that offends the foibati
The Laterza publishing house has published a book by the historian Eric Gobetti entitled "And then the foibe?", an offensive title towards the thousands of Italians killed by Tito's communist partisans that comes out a few days after the "Day of Remembrance" by Francesco Giubilei - 29/12/2020 Source: Il Giornale Not judging a book by its cover is the first lesson you learn in a publishing house. The second is that the title and the cover are fundamental aspects for selling a book. This is what the Laterza publishing house must have thought when they chose the title of the new text by the historian Eric Gobetti to be released in mid-January "And then the foibe?"....
