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Today is Memorial Day and I'll post a bit 'different. I always start the communication course, but using a special, very personal. First things first. Today all media remind us of the Holocaust, yesterday Marco Paolini and his "Ausmerzen" had a good result in terms of audience La7. On Facebook, along with some friends network, we talked about "stumbling blocks" , a brilliant idea by the German artist Gunter Deminig that combines history, culture and civics. Remember not to forget, just . Reading Primo Levi to understand the scope of those inhuman acts. But let's not forget that anti-Semitism at the time was not common practice and that, as Daniel Goldhagen wrote in his "The Willing Executioners Hitler" , very, very normal, ordinary people, supported, directly or indirectly, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Holocaust. But I will not deepen the story, is my passion but it's not my job.

What amazes me is that on days like this, almost anyone, especially the newspapers, on TV, the Web, remember the many, many Italians who were captured and deported to Germany . In all over 700,000 people, 40,000 died in concentration camps. They were not Jews. They only had to wear a uniform because of the Italian Army . On September 9, 1943 King Vittorio Emanuele III, Marshal Badoglio and dozens of members of the government, Army and Royal House ran away from Rome, unarmed but with luggage, in a hurry to go to Brindisi . No order given to troops, were left in disarray, with a true act of treason against them made by the person who had sworn to obey . Left to themselves, the soldiers were Italians, except on rare occasions, easily captured. Were not considered "prisoners of war" (as the Geneva Convention provided) but "inmates" virtually no rights and forced to work. Do not talk about anyone.

Why do I say this? because my grandfather, Armando Polesel, was one of them , was an infantry soldier stationed in the current Croatia, a sergeant who was captured and deported. He returned to Italy ill and died a few years later, young, leaving a wife and three young children. Last year, after much insistence by my father, have awarded a medal of honor (required by Law No 296/2006, also the little publicized). Today, 27 January 2011, we must remember " the Holocaust (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the persecution of citizens of Italian Jews, the Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, and those who in different fields and camps, have opposed the project of extermination, and at the risk of their lives they have saved more lives and protected the persecuted ". This is the law No. 211 of July 20, 2000, which established the Holocaust Memorial Day. My tiny contribution just want to remember all victims, including those 700,000 Italians in uniform who, too often , are forgotten. not to strike them. Honestly, now Ruby, of Tulliani and everything else I do not care anything at all.