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Nicholas Whithorn
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Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina.
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This year has seen ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of the three most notorious Nazi-fascist massacres in Italy during World War II : Fosse Ardeatine, Sant'Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto/Monte Sole. Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has failed to show her face at any of them.

Ottant’anni fa la strage a Marzabotto, Mattarella: “Mai più nazismi e fascismi”. E Steinmeier chiede scusa: “Provo dolore e vergogna”
Ottant’anni fa la strage a Marzabotto, Mattarella: “Mai più nazismi e fascismi”. E Steinmeier chiede scusa: “Provo dolore e vergogna”

Il racconto del “pellegrinaggio laico” del capo dello Stato da Monte Sole dove morirono 770 persone. “Può di nuovo succedere se dimentichiamo. Italia e Germani…

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After being arrested 10 days earlier while carrying secret resistance documents and brutally tortured, on 29 September 1944 Italian partisan Virginia Tonelli is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste.

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After being arrested 10 days earlier while carrying secret resistance documents and brutally tortured, on 29 September 1944 Italian partisan Virginia Tonelli is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste.

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This is the building in which the Italians are plotting to take over Germany.

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Young and unemployed in Italy? Agriculture Minister Lollobrigida offers you the opportunity to serve your country by doing a year's civilian service working in agriculture. €507 a month. Better hurry, there are only 1,000 places available.

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No, Milan

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We have now reached Salerno, where low-speed Italy ends and high-speed Italy starts. Reggio Calabria - Salerno 400km in 4 hours Salerno - Milan 700km in 4.5 hours

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The start of an 8-hour journey the whole length of Italy, from toe to tip.

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Whenever I see world leaders speaking at the UN in New York I ask myself, how is it that the marble of the wall behind them exactly matches that of my bedroom floor?

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Nicholas Whithorn
@nickwhithorn.bsky.social
Legal Translator and University Lecturer based in Messina.
353 followers384 following911 posts