La restituzione dei beni espropriati ai cittadini di «nazioni nemiche» nella Toscana del secondo dopoguerra

At the end of Word War II, the post-fascist Italian establishment had to deal with most of the abuses perpetrated by the previous regime. Movable and immovable property belong-ing to citizen from «enemy nations» were then returned. The analysis of the Tuscan Case is carried out on the basis of the documents conserved at the Historical Archive of Monte Dei Paschi di Siena. The aim of the analysis itself is both to highlight the complexity and slowness of the return of goods mechanism, and to un-derline the substantial continuity with the past: as a matter of fact, was the same Ente di gestione e liquidazione immobiliare (Egeli) to confiscate the properties before and during the War, and to return them at the end of the conflict. Very frequently the restoration of full rights on personal belongings, turned into a long and exhausting process for the owners themselves. As a result, the return procedure often became quite harmful, carrying out further abuses instead of healing them.