2024-06-05 02:13:09
Giampaolo Clerico’s e book “Carry it again house” has been launched in bookstores and on-line shops. Second World Struggle: the true story of a pilot who disappeared within the Italian Alps” (Athesia, 18 euros). We’re publishing Luca Fregona’s afterword as a preview.
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A serial quantity, a fraction of sheet steel, 4 rings, a skeleton deserted in a gap within the woods two spans excessive. A secret saved for seventy-five years. This story can’t be defined in purely rational phrases. These bones needed to be discovered. They desperately pleaded to be discovered. For years and years. They known as and known as and known as, however nobody answered. No person needed to listen to. Till a person, a carabinieri marshal who got here from far-off, started to take heed to the mountain, the forest, the bushes, the wind, the earth, and the youngsters of the previous who had now change into previous. And he solved the case. Giampaolo Clerico was the commander of the Sarentino station for twelve years. He has a formidable CV: peacekeeping missions in Kosovo and the Balkans, worldwide operations to fight narcotics between Turkey and Italy. An investigator with an infallible nostril. 4 languages spoken like Italian.
When he arrived, he from Veneto, in Alto Adige, he shortly bought his A bilingualism license and realized the Sarentino dialect as if he have been born there. Language was the important thing to getting into an apparently closed group. And resolve a “chilly case” that had been dragging on within the city like a toxic cloud since 20 October 1944, when three American P-38 fighters escorting seventy-one bombers headed for Germany have been shot down by the Flak (the German anti-aircraft) stationed on the Renon. They crashed above Sarentino in an inaccessible space at 1,800 meters above sea stage. Solely one of many three pilots survived, Lieutenant Olson. Captured by farmers along with his legs damaged, he was handed over to German troopers and despatched to a focus camp. He survived the struggle. The second pilot, Lieutenant Wisner was buried within the woods by the townspeople. His physique was recovered in August 2000 by a specialised unit of the American military because of the incessant analysis work of Paolo Cagnan, on the time a journalist for “Alto Adige”. The thriller of the third pilot, Second Lieutenant Lowell Sawyer Twedt, remained. The place have been the stays of his aircraft, and the place was his physique? A toxic cloud (stuffed with responsible collaboration, silence, terror, denunciation) had guarded the key for the reason that years of German occupation. Along with 4 valuable rings, the ignoble fruit of the vilification of the corpse, stolen by a South Tyrolean SS man who had amputated 4 fingers from a useless enemy. A desecration that weighed like a curse. A stain on the conscience of those that, innocently, have been pressured to look at.
The whole lot stopped, silent and motionless for seventy-five years. But, everybody in Sarentino someway knew, knew names and details, and a few had even seen. For a very long time it was not possible to open the reminiscence drawer. Too painful, too many individuals concerned nonetheless alive, too dangerous to dredge up previous tales. However, as we all know, ultimately the time comes to shut the accounts. And to ask, all collectively, for forgiveness for that sacrilegious theft. Clerico, on this e book, recounts his unimaginable investigation step-by-step, defending the sources and with the required tact, conscious that sure outcomes are obtained with empathy and never with imposition. We would have liked a carabiniere like him to resolve the case, decided and with the “proper distance”. A person able to approaching with excessive respect a group that’s solely apparently “distant”. Clerico listened, dialogued, investigated, put all of the items of their place to lastly have all of the solutions when the circle was about to shut. He did it with out judging and along with the individuals of Sarentino, with just one goal: to carry Lieutenant Lowell house, discover the 4 rings and return them to his now eighty-year-old son. And likewise give peace to those that had saved these 4 rings at house for seventy-five years in an previous tin field buried in a wardrobe, with out the braveness or impudence to the touch them.
2024-06-05 02:13:09