At 22:45 of the July 25, 1943 EIAR transmit the news of the fall of Mussolini. The leader was arrested at 17 leaving a short interview with Vittorio Emanuele III at Villa Savoia on the Via Salaria. Done up in the royal police on board an ambulance, he moved to Ponza, then translated to the Maddalena in Campo Imperatore and the Gran Sasso. That afternoon, the soldiers suddenly transported from unsuspecting Cecchignola to patrol the huge park of Villa Savoia, was the Romagna Gino Pilandri. The next morning, he recalled Pilandri Ghigi Bruno, the King, "a small, rickety, supported by two officers because it would not slip on the grass," went to distribute chocolate bars to soldiers remained on duty throughout the night.
On July 25, '43 marks a radical change in Italian history. From that date to reconstruct the events of "day of wrath," the terrible twelve months starting from September '43 to September '44, lived in Rimini and San Marino. 26 July '43: "Many people who had not heard the radio or read newspapers, had left the house unaware of what happened, as usual, bringing the distinctive crown of the beam of his jacket." [V. Reffi] begins the hunt for former Blackshirts. While along Via Garibaldi is beaten with a socket in the head five people Giuffrida Platt, an 'turned fascist "who" could not find peace ", well known in the city.
The same morning to meet some of San Marino Rimini in the dentist Dr Alvaro Casali, to organize a rally to encourage the government of San Marino to resign. Between July 27 and 28 were arrested several members of fascism Rimini: Giuffrida Platania, perinde Buratti, Eugenio Lazzarotto, Joseph and Betty Valerio Lance (who was also the Federal City). We will release the Germans on September 13. Bolton recounts: "The 27 or 28 July of '43 I went to Rome. I went with the captain of the carabinieri Bracco, who had been transferred from Rimini to Rome ... When, after ten days, I returned, my friend and fascist Motta, PS commissioner sent an agent to my house-I lived in piazza Malatesta-to see if I was there. And since I was there he sent me to say that I went to him. I did not fear: he was a friend and a fascist. It put me in jail. For protection, he said. "
Some other character with a view to seeking recommendations for the future, at the anti-fascists. This is the case of goodwill. Salvatore Corrias, Fascist Institute of Culture, which he visited the mill socialist Mario, the father of four years before quell'Ennio beaten by the boxer Benito Totti to denigrating way Roman frivolous motions. Corrias is the first anti-fascists to make speeches in the square.
[This page belongs to the volume of Antonio Montanari, "The day of wrath, September 1943-September 1944 in Rimini and San Marino
", which can be fully read or download from this link .]
Ira, 1943-44 to Rimini and San Marino
On July 25, '43 marks a radical change in Italian history. From that date to reconstruct the events of "day of wrath," the terrible twelve months starting from September '43 to September '44, lived in Rimini and San Marino. 26 July '43: "Many people who had not heard the radio or read newspapers, had left the house unaware of what happened, as usual, bringing the distinctive crown of the beam of his jacket." [V. Reffi] begins the hunt for former Blackshirts. While along Via Garibaldi is beaten with a socket in the head five people Giuffrida Platt, an 'turned fascist "who" could not find peace ", well known in the city.
The same morning to meet some of San Marino Rimini in the dentist Dr Alvaro Casali, to organize a rally to encourage the government of San Marino to resign. Between July 27 and 28 were arrested several members of fascism Rimini: Giuffrida Platania, perinde Buratti, Eugenio Lazzarotto, Joseph and Betty Valerio Lance (who was also the Federal City). We will release the Germans on September 13. Bolton recounts: "The 27 or 28 July of '43 I went to Rome. I went with the captain of the carabinieri Bracco, who had been transferred from Rimini to Rome ... When, after ten days, I returned, my friend and fascist Motta, PS commissioner sent an agent to my house-I lived in piazza Malatesta-to see if I was there. And since I was there he sent me to say that I went to him. I did not fear: he was a friend and a fascist. It put me in jail. For protection, he said. "
Some other character with a view to seeking recommendations for the future, at the anti-fascists. This is the case of goodwill. Salvatore Corrias, Fascist Institute of Culture, which he visited the mill socialist Mario, the father of four years before quell'Ennio beaten by the boxer Benito Totti to denigrating way Roman frivolous motions. Corrias is the first anti-fascists to make speeches in the square.
[This page belongs to the volume of Antonio Montanari, "The day of wrath, September 1943-September 1944 in Rimini and San Marino
", which can be fully read or download from this link .]