The sun, the food, lazy days and pastel colors… but is that the real Italy? The particular fascination that Germans have for the Bel Paese says plenty about both countries.
Author: Laura Ewert
Laura Ewert is a German freelance author who writes about anything that matters — from mineral water to Instagram. She is a freelance author for Zeit newspaper.
German journalist Laura Ewert found out that her grandfather had led a massacre of Italian civilians in 1944 during the Nazi era. Eighty years later, Ewert met descendants of the victims in San Polo and experienced reactions that she would not have expected.