Post by account_disabled on Dec 24, 2023 5:28:33 GMT
For this issue of the column I highlight three historical essays, which deal with the sad period from the end of the Second World War to the immediate post-war period, from the purges to the last days of Mussolini to the years of the RSI. Three books that will soon be part of my library, keeping company with many others on that period of our history that I have been passionate about for years. Purges of Luigi Leonardi 1945: the showdown in La Spezia PurgesThe purges that followed the end of fascism are one of the taboos in the history of our country: a controversial and delicate issue.
Luigi Leonardi denounces, in this well-documented volume, the cases of summary justice recorded in the province of La Spezia in 1945, when legislative decree no. 159, issued by the co-belligerent Special Data government of the South in July 1944, established the purge of all those suspected, rightly or wrongly, of fascism or collaboration. Mursia 150 pages April 13, 2011 The Last Days of Mussolini by Pierre Milza The Last Days of MussoliniAround the end of Benito Mussolini and the many, conflicting versions that over time have attempted to reconstruct the last days of the Duce, from the desperate escape to the execution and macabre display of the corpse in Milan, much still remains to be clarified.
If the first dissenting voices around the official vulgate had already been raised in the immediate post-war period, starting from the 1960s a vast literature on the subject began to spread, full of ideas for investigation and unsolved mysteries. From the disappearance of the "Dongo treasure" to the "double execution" hypothesis, from the hunt for the "Duce's diaries" to the disturbing role (shadowed, among others, by the late De Felice) that the secret services may have played foreigners in the end of the dictator, everything was called into question and subjected to investigation. Longanesi
Luigi Leonardi denounces, in this well-documented volume, the cases of summary justice recorded in the province of La Spezia in 1945, when legislative decree no. 159, issued by the co-belligerent Special Data government of the South in July 1944, established the purge of all those suspected, rightly or wrongly, of fascism or collaboration. Mursia 150 pages April 13, 2011 The Last Days of Mussolini by Pierre Milza The Last Days of MussoliniAround the end of Benito Mussolini and the many, conflicting versions that over time have attempted to reconstruct the last days of the Duce, from the desperate escape to the execution and macabre display of the corpse in Milan, much still remains to be clarified.
If the first dissenting voices around the official vulgate had already been raised in the immediate post-war period, starting from the 1960s a vast literature on the subject began to spread, full of ideas for investigation and unsolved mysteries. From the disappearance of the "Dongo treasure" to the "double execution" hypothesis, from the hunt for the "Duce's diaries" to the disturbing role (shadowed, among others, by the late De Felice) that the secret services may have played foreigners in the end of the dictator, everything was called into question and subjected to investigation. Longanesi