Gruppo Alpini "Gen. Pietro Zaglio" di Salce – ANA Belluno Section
Help the living to honour the dead – Nardo Caprioli
From Rossellini’s Il generale Della Rovere to I due marescialli and I due colonnelli with Totò: three very different films portray 8 September 1943, the German occupation and the moment when obedience parts ways with conscience. With a look at the Alpini and the Italian servicemen called upon to choose on their own, without orders and without guarantees.
What is the true story of the Ponte di Perati? Behind the famous Alpini song lie the Julia Division, the dramatic Greek campaign of 1940, a bridge that was genuinely fought over and destroyed during the withdrawal, and the testimony of those who lived through those days. The history, memory and legend of one of the symbolic places of the Alpini tradition.
The Boys of Aosta ’41 were the university students who attended the first Reserve Officer Cadet Course at the Aosta Military Alpine School. Many volunteered and paid for their service with their lives in the Second World War. A tribute their story deserves.
The Italians in Russia through two Soviet-side memories: Red Army tank crewman Sergei Otroshchenkov on the Don in December 1942, and Ukrainian civilian Yekaterina Mateychuk, who saw them arrive in 1941 and retreat in 1943.
On the Malga Bala upland, between Friuli and Slovenia, twelve former Carabinieri guarding the Bretto di Sotto power station were captured and killed in March 1944. Their names, the places and why we remember them.
The story of the 7th Alpini Regiment and its Belluno battalions in the Second World War: from the war against France to the Greek-Albanian front, from the guerrilla war in Montenegro to deportation to Germany after the armistice of 8 September 1943.
The cold that broke the ARMIR during the retreat from Russia in the winter of 1942-43, told through the pages of Bedeschi, Revelli and Rigoni Stern: memory, suffering and dignity on the harshest front.
Sculptor, journalist and secret agent: Michael Noble, the British officer who brought the Corriere della Sera back to the newsstands in 1945 and opened the doors of Verona’s psychiatric hospital to art.
Duilio Pitto, a founding member of the Salce Alpini Group, recounts his escape from German captivity in Fiume in 1943 with a perfectly forged leave pass.
At the 49th Alpini National Rally in Padua, Ezio Capello meets Dante Chichiarelli, an Alpino from Rosciolo dei Marsi, who tells him how he crossed the burning footbridge at Perati in November 1940.
