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• Born in Prato, Tuscany • Kurt Erich Suckert• Italian mother / German Father• Enlisted at 16, fought with the Alpine troops and on the French front (WWI)
• Born in Prato, Tuscany • Kurt Erich Suckert• Italian mother / German Father• Enlisted at 16, fought with the Alpine troops and on the French front (WWI)• In 1918 exposed to mustard gas – most likely cause of his cancer and early death
• Born in Prato, Tuscany • Kurt Erich Suckert• Italian mother / German Father• Enlisted at 16, fought with the Alpine troops and on the French front (WWI)• In 1918 exposed to mustard gas – most likely cause of his cancer and early death• In 1922 took part in Mussolini’s “March on Rome”
• Born in Prato, Tuscany • Kurt Erich Suckert• Italian mother / German Father• Enlisted at 16, fought with the Alpine troops and on the French front (WWI)• In 1918 exposed to mustard gas – most likely cause of his cancer and early death• In 1922 took part in Mussolini’s “March on Rome”• Founded several Fascist newspapers and magazines
La rivolta dei santi (1921)
• 1933-1938 Island of Lipari• 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943: Rome’s Regina Coeli• Always rescued by Caleazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law
From left to right: Neville Chamberlain, Eouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement.
• Sent to cover the Eastern Front• Followed Nazis into the Soviet Union
• Sent to cover the Eastern Front• Followed Nazis into the Soviet Union• Much of his work was censored
Antonio Gramsci Palmiro Togliatti
• Film about an Italian veteran who returns to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of the Germans. Strange Deception (1953)
• Film about an Italian veteran who returns to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of the Germans. Strange Deception (1953)• Travels to China, Maoist Communism
• Film about an Italian veteran who returns to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of the Germans. Strange Deception (1953)• Travels to China, Maoist Communism • Plans to cross US on bike
• Film about an Italian veteran who returns to avenge his brother’s death at the hands of the Germans. Strange Deception (1953)• Travels to China, Maoist Communism • Plans to cross US on bike• His final book Maledetti toscani (1956) attacks the bourgeois
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