Passato e Presente

Season 1, Episode 30

Episode Title: Italian Military Internees: Voices from Captivity

Air Date: 2017-11-22

Overview:

Episode dedicated to the "Italian Military Internees", the Italian soldiers captured by the Germans after September 8, 1943: refusing to continue fighting alongside the Nazi-fascists, they were denied the status of prisoners of war; used in the Axis war industry, abused and unable to receive help from the Red Cross, after the end of the war they were "forgotten" until 1997, when their figure was eventually rehabilitated.