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Giuseppe Maras was Italian commander of division Italia (Yugoslavia): he was awarded with Gold Medal of Military Valour by the President of Italian Republic in 1968. He was a soldier of Italian army.

authors and scholars such as Raoul Pupo, Gianni Oliva and Arrigo Petacco consider Tito responsible for the Foibe killings. Among them there are Bernard Meares and Pamela Ballinger. Tito's involvement with the Foibe issue has attracted media coverage.

During World War II, the German minority in occupied Yugoslavia enjoyed a status of superiority over the Yugoslav population. The Volksdeutche (as they were called) were under heavy Nazi influence and served as the fifth column during the invasion of Yugoslavia. The Germans had been given control over the Yugoslav region of Banat in which they ruled over the local Slav majority, forming Waffen SS volunteer formations. This was primarily the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen, one of the most infamous SS units, responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of Yugoslav civilians, as well as brutal reprisals resulting in the desolation of entire areas. With rare exceptions, the Yugoslav Volksdeutche collaborated wholeheartedly with the occupation, supplying more than 60,000 troops for German military formations, and actively participating in the brutal repression of the Yugoslav populace. On November 21 1944 the Presidency of the Yugoslav parliament, the AVNOJ, declared the highly organized German minority collectively hostile to the Yugoslav state. The majority of Yugoslavia's Germans were subsequently expelled from the country. Tito himself issued an order to Peko Dapčević on October 16 1944 which stated, "Immediately send me by way of Bela Crkva to Vršac one of the best, strongest brigades, possibly a Krajina Brigade. It is needed for me to clear Vršac of its Swabian population. [...] Keep this in secret". Over the course of October, approximately 700 local Germans were killed there by Yugoslav forces.

Tito established an authoritarian  single-party state. The number of people killed between 1945 and 1946, “victims of Tito’s mass shootings, forced death marches and concentration camps” has been put at 250,000.

In 1944, Tito signed a the decree that ordered the government confiscation of all property, without compensation, of Yugoslavia’s ethnic Germans” and “an additional law, promulgated in Belgrade on February 6, 1945, cancelled the Yugoslav citizenship of the country’s ethnic Germans”.

Several authors and scholars consider Tito's regime responsible for the Foibe killings.

Broz repressed his countrymen/countrywomen with OZNA, UDBA and a lot of brutal prisons: notorious is Goli Otok prison where many political prisoners were killed.

Among others authors and scholars, Rudolph Joseph Rummel, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii, accuses Tito of being responsible of “massive democide” of more than 500,000 people,  "mainly 'collaborators', 'anti-communists', rival guerrillas, Ustashi and critics" and “after the war” of “even more people, now also including the rich, landlords, bourgeoisie, clerics, and in the later 1940s, even pro-Soviet communists”. Rummel considers him responsible for an ethnic cleansing process against “Italian POWs and civilians”, “Moslems and Albanians” and against Germans, arguing he tried “to expel all ethnic Germans in the country” along with ethnic Italians. He considers him responsible of the “Bleiburg and related massacres” and he writes that “forced labor and imprisonment for opponents or undesirables was a characteristic of the Tito regime” too.