Le cimetière des fascistes. Comment ne pas dire l’histoire des soldats italiens décédés en captivité en Belgique et en France durant la Grande Guerre

During the First World War, around 25,000 Italian soldiers taken prisoner during the Battle of Caporetto were sent to the rear of the Western Front in the Belgian and French territories that the Germans had occupied since 1914, condemned to work for their enemy. More than two thousand of them died there, their graves spread over more than one hundred and fifty different localities. Even before the end of the Great War, various tributes were paid to these soldiers who had died in captivity. But after 1922, the Fascist regime undertook erasing the history of Italian captivity. Thus, during the “... Mehr ...