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Vindictive to the last: a Nazi atrocity in Tuscany

Even in retreat in August 1944, a German posse carried out a particularly brutal triple murder at a hillside farm outside Florence in a vendetta against the Einstein family

Clare Mulley
Nina Einstein and her daughters, victims of the triple murder.  Courtesy of Anna Maria Boldrini
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 12 April 2025
issue 12 April 2025

Late one evening in 1994, an Italian magistrate walked into a storage room at the military prosecutor’s offices in Rome. There his eye was caught by a 6ft-high wooden cupboard, curiously positioned so that it faced the wall. His interest piqued, he pulled the cupboard around and opened its doors.

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