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July 1944 – for months, the German Wehrmacht has been withdrawing in Italy. The staff of 274th Infantry-Regiment took quarter in the little village San Polo near Arezzo in Tuscany. On 13th of July the pioneer-platoon receives the order from the commander to start a counter-partisan action. 12 hours later 48 men are hastily buried by German troops. Three days later a British military investigator is present, when the locals exhume the bodies of the victims. He finds out that 16 of them were buried alive. The San Polo massacre was never properly investigated. The perpetrators were never prosecuted. In October 2004, after months of intensive investigation, two reporters detected the last living staff officer involved: Klaus Konrad. After the war, he started a plain life and became member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). The film tells the detailed story of the massacre, based on testimonies of local survivors and confessions of Klaus Konrad who still denies responsibility.

Germany - 2005 - 30 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director René Althammer, Udo Gümpel Camera Matthias Eichhorn, Andrea Riccardi Sound Sönke Fehlberg Editing Reinhard Borgmann

Production Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Marlene Dietrich Allee 20, 14482 Postdam, Allemagne Tél : +49 33 1979 930 E-mail : info@rbb-online.de

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