Italian soldiers interned in Nazi concentration camps: a meeting in Trani with journalist Mario Avagliano

650,000: this is the number of Italian soldiers who, in the aftermath of the armistice of 8 September 1943, refused to continue the war alongside the Nazis and Fascists and for this refusal ended up in concentration camps. To this little-known page of 20th-century Italian history, the journalist and writer 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 dedicated the book “𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢 𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐧𝐞𝐢 𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢. 𝐔𝐧𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐳'𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢 (1943-1945)” (𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐨),

co-written with historian and journalist Marco Palmieri. Avagliano will meet the public on November 15th at 6.00 pm at the 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐢 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐢 (𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐨, 𝐏.𝐳𝐳𝐚 𝐃𝐮𝐨𝐦𝐨 8/9) where the exhibition "Frisone and the nights of Fullen. The figurative work of Ferruccio Francesco Frisone during the internment in the Third Reich's concentration camps" dedicated to the painter Ferruccio Frisone, one of those Italian soldiers who paid the consequences of that refusal firsthand.