Marco De Paolis is the Military Attorney General, a professor of military criminal law, and the author of numerous scholarly publications on war crimes and on military and humanitarian criminal law. Due to his extraordinary experience as a prosecutor in over 500 cases involving the massacres of Italian civilians and military personnel, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the leading experts on war crimes. He has presided over 17 trials concerning the most serious Nazi-Fascist massacres committed in Italy and abroad during World War II. He has received important international awards and honors, including, in 2021, the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among his scholarly publications (25 to date): The Judicial Reconstruction of Nazi-Fascist Crimes in Italy, Giappichelli, 2012; The Difficult Path to Justice: Trials for German War Crimes in Italy, Viella, 2016; S. Anna di Stazzema: The Trial, the History, the Documents, Viella, 2016; Kefalonia: The Trial, the History, the Documents. Viella, 2017; Monte Sole Marzabotto: The Trial, the History, the Documents. Viella, 2023; Military Courts—Jurisdiction and Their Independence, in The Living Constitution, Giuffrè, 2023; Military Courts, in Institutions of Public Law, Giuffrè, 2023. Among his popular works: The Man Who Hunted Nazis, Piemme Mondadori, 2022; Hunting Nazis, Rizzoli, 2023.
