Quali furono i motivi delle foibe?
Quali furono i motivi delle foibe?
Si indicano infatti soprattutto i massacri ai danni della popolazione di Istria, Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia, perpetrati dai partigiani slavi durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e poco dopo la fine della guerra, e causati causato da motivi etnici e politici.
What does foibe stand for?
- The foibe massacres, or simply the foibe, refers to mass killings both during and after World War II, mainly committed by Yugoslav Partisans against the local ethnic Italian population ( Istrian Italians and Dalmatian Italians ), mainly in Julian March, Istria, Kvarner and Dalmatia.
What is a foibe massacre?
- Foibe massacres. The " foibe massacres ," or simply " the foibe ," literally refers to mass killings by which the corpses were thrown into foibas (deep natural sinkholes; by extension also mine shafts etc.), perpetrated mainly by Yugoslav Partisans, mainly in Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia, against the local Italian population,...
What is the origin of the word “foiba”?
- The name was derived from a local geological feature, a type of deep karst sinkhole called foiba. The term includes by extension killings and "burials" in other subterranean formations, such as the Basovizza " foiba ", which is a mine shaft.
What happened to the Basovizza foibe?
- At the end of the war, near the site of the most famous Basovizza foibe, a big battle took place between Germans and Yugoslav forces, and after the battle local villagers threw dead German soldiers and horses into the mine shaft. After the war the Basovizza foibe was used by the Italian authorities as a garbage dump.
