The Nazi Massacre of Vallucciole (AR) was a reprisal, but only in appearance.

German soldiers of the well known “Hermann Goering” division went into action after two fellow soldiers had been killed the day before, but theirs was actually an operation meticulously planned for weeks; a roundup that started in March from the Modena Apennines and then extended to the entire Tuscan-Emilian ridge until it reached Vallucciole, a small village in the municipality of Stia (AR).

It was dawn on April 13, 1944, and 106 civilians died. It will be remembered as one of the first major massacres that would make Arezzo a martyr province in the spring-summer of that year.

In 2010, 67 years later, eight of the then Nazi soldiers were being called to account for that massacre, which on the day extended to a handful of Casentino villages, from Partina to Moscaio.

The Stefani Law Firm was in charged of the defense of the families of the victims of the massacre and obtained the conviction of the defendants before the Military Court of Verona and Germany to pay compensation for the damage suffered by the families of the victims.