Neo Nazi Hackers Take Down History Site
NEO-NAZI hackers defaced a web site which collects material about a 1944 Nazi genocide.
The hackers stuck a banner on the site with a skull topped by an insect, probably to indicate the size of their brains, with inscriptions in Gothic characters. They also installed some Nazi music. The hacked site was up for an hour.
The site has had more of a public profile recently with the release of a Spike Lee movie, Miracle at St Anna, about the civilian massacre conducted by Nazi troops in the small Tuscan village of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, on 12 August,, in 1944.
Sant’Anna was zoned by the German occupation forces as a civilian ‘relocation’ area and was also a ‘logistics camp’ for Italy’s anti-fascist partisans, who could attack and relocate behind enemy lines in small units.
The Germans turned the area into a a concentration camp and when that failed to stop the partisan attacks, they decided to wipe out 560 unarmed women, children and old people. The men had long since disappeared to avoid deportation. This was all on the basis that for for every German soldier that was killed, 100 civilians would die.