WW2 & Modern History
Liberation Day: Exclusion and The Enemy Within
A Liberation Day note from Abruzzo: how Italian Fascism excluded women, Jews and Roma at home, and why 15 of Mussolini's 48 camps were here
Life in Abruzzo
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Armistice Always Please: The Cost of War in Abruzzo
“Southern Abruzzo bore the heavy weight of 2nd World War, exacerbated by the impact of the Gustav Line. The Gustav Line was a line of defence built by the Germans in late 1943 in Italy. It went from Gaeta, which is south of Rome, through Cassino, the Apennine Mountains, and all the way to the...
Missing Pieces: War, Abbateggio and a POW
A story by Van, a member of the Life In Abruzzo group, about her much-loved father Lorenzo, an Italian POW in Nazi Germany, who left Abruzzo in 1950 to live in Australia.
Liberation Day: Exclusion and The Enemy Within
Armistice Always Please: The Cost of War in Abruzzo