Fosse Ardeatine
Historischer Kontext
Beim Massaker in den Ardeatinischen Höhlen wurden am 24. März 1944 in den beiden verbundenen Höhlengängen im Süden Roms an der Via Ardeatina im Quartiere Ardeatino 335 italienische Zivilisten, darunter 75 jüdische Geiseln, erschossen. Die Opfer waren ausschließlich Jungen und Männer. Den Befehl dazu gaben die verantwortlichen Offiziere der Wehrmacht, Generalfeldmarschall Albert Kesselring, Generaloberst Eberhard von Mackensen und Generalleutnant Kurt Mälzer (Stadtkommandanten von Rom), als Vergeltungsmaßnahme für den Tod von 33 Südtiroler Angehörigen des Polizeiregiments „Bozen“, die tags zuvor bei einem von der Resistenza durchgeführten Bombenanschlag in Rom, Via Rasella, getötet worden waren. Organisiert und durchgeführt wurde das Massaker vom Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (KdS) Rom, Herbert Kappler.
aus Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massaker_in_den_Ardeatinischen_H%C3%B6hlen
Unsere Gedanken
What do we think?
Shame and sadness. You want to be able to describe what you feel, but the words are not big enough.
Claustro-phobia.
What makes a person to be able to kill 335 people ?
I feel a heavy stillness, a mix of sorrow and reverence for the lives violently taken there. Standing here awaken a deep sense of responsibility
Sadness for human losses.Anger for the atrocious Nazi-fascist barbarism.
I fell sorry for what happened to those innocents.
The architecture of this place reinforce all the feelings.
Sadness.
The weight of the number of people being murderd there. Their stories that could have continued for many years, but couldn´t, for their life was taken.
I thought about children's childhood, how war stole a part of their lives.
If this place could speak to Europe today, what warning or advice would it give us?
Never stop being empathetic
I guess it already speaks to Europe reminding us of how important it is to keep the peace we're living (more or less atm), and never to forget in order to not allow any repetition of these events
The Fosse Ardeatine are an example of the brutality of an non-democratic regime and it is up to us to do everything necessary so that such atrocities do not happen again.
If this place could speak to Europe it would make it remember how many injustices people suffer during a war period.
Feeling entitled to take other people´s lives is really dangerous and doesn´t take much to destroy hundreds of people´s lives.
It would tell us to speak up if something feels off.





