Free Speech or Historical Revisionism? Analyzing Alessandro Pepe's explanation and the historical implications
In recent years, discussions around free speech and historical memory have become increasingly polarizing. A speech given by Alessandro Pepe, who goes by the name Alexx Hermánn now, associated with the 2016 film My Honor Was Loyalty, brings these issues to the forefront. Previously I wrote about Alessandro Pepe / Alexx Hermánn and how his work romanticize the myth of the Waffen-SS [here](https://www.samueldekorte.com/articles/my-honor-was-loyalty) and how he distorted the Allied bombings in Germany to evoke sympathy for the German soldiers [here](https://www.samueldekorte.com/articles/allied-air-assaults). The speech is taken from the beginning of the short movie You've Shed Blood, which details a battle between Italian partisans and the German Wehrmacht.