«Una vita nei reticolati» (1941-1946). Il caso di Giovanni Pavoni in India
Journal title STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI
Author/s Elena Pala
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2023/94
Language Italian Pages 20 P. 95-114 File size 189 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPC2023-094006
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The article focuses on the analysis of an unpublished correspondence of an Italian soldier interned in 1941 by the British in camp No. 25 in Yol at the foot of the Himalayas. It offers the opportunity to reflect on Italian prisoners of war who fell into British hands between 1940 and 1943 and decided not to collaborate. The biographical events, the return to middle-class life, once the world conflict was over, the joining of the «Associazione Reduci ex-prigionieri d’America non cooperatoribellici Volontà», and the existential disappointment of these non-cooperating soldiers to find themselves, after a youth “spent for the fatherland”, misunderstood exiles in their beloved Italy, are also reconstructed in a summary manner.
Keywords: World War II, Fascism, Italian prisoners of war camps, Yol prison camp, Fascist correspondence
Elena Pala, «Una vita nei reticolati» (1941-1946). Il caso di Giovanni Pavoni in India in "STORIA E PROBLEMI CONTEMPORANEI" 94/2023, pp 95-114, DOI: 10.3280/SPC2023-094006