War and post-war Gdańsk in the memories of the Italian officer – physician Piero Redaelli (1944–1945)
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https://doi.org/10.12775/GNH.2022.07Keywords
Piero Redaelli, Gdańsk, Toruń, alpine riflemen, a prisoner of war camp, interned Italian soldiers, eastern front, Stalag XX B/ZAbstract
This text presents a fragment of the memoirs of the Italian officer of the Second World War, Piero Redaelli (1915–1997), a doctor-surgeon (veteran of many fronts: in France, Balkans and in the Soviet Union), whose surrender of the Italian army (September 1943) led to Gdańsk in 1944. There, as an interned Italian soldier, for several months – until March 1945 – he worked as a doctor in the structure of a German POW camp (Stalag XX B/Z). In his memoirs he describes the living and working conditions, mainly of Italian prisoners of war, city under siege and fighting; eventually also the entry of the Red Army. The Italian surgeon left Gdańsk in the early autumn of 1945, and was still involved in the opening of the General City Hospital (Medical Academy in Gdańsk, today: Medical University of Gdańsk).
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