Alceo Valcini: un testimone della storia polacca negli anni a cavallo del secondo conflitto mondiale (1933-1946)
Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
Alceo Valcini: un testimone della storia polacca negli anni a cavallo del secondo conflitto mondiale (1933-1946) / L. Bernardini. - In: PL.IT. - ISSN 2384-9266. - (2019), pp. 47-63.
Abstract:
Alceo Valcini: a witness of Polish History before and during the World War II (1933-
1946). Alceo Valcini was the Warsaw-based correspondent for the Italian daily
“Corriere della Sera” during the years 1933-1946. Valcini encountered great
difficulties with the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Aldo Borelli, who was not
interested in following the political life of Poland except for Poland’s clashes
with the Soviet Union. Valcini managed to publish his articles as long as they
stressed the influence of Mussolini’s fascism on Polish political life or if they
dealt with Soviet political interference in Central Europe. Valcini was to be
replaced by another journalist as correspondent from Warsaw because of his
own pro-Polish views and scarce enthusiasm for the aggressive stances of Nazi
Germany towards Czechoslovakia and Poland, but he nevertheless managed to
witness Hitler’s aggression against Poland. His stories were the first accounts of
German persecution of the Polish Jews and Warsaw’s civil population, although
they had no chance of publication on the pages of the increasingly pro-Nazi
“Corriere della Sera”. Valcini took notice of everything that happened in Poland
between the outbreak of the war and the end of July 1944. In 1945, Valcini
collected his memoirs in a publication entitled The Calvary of Warsaw, in which
he gave a graphic account of life in the city under German occupation. Valcini
witnessed to the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto and to the activities of the Polish
Secret State. His book was translated into Polish in 1970, after having undergone
heavy editing, possibly as a result of intervention by the Communist censors.
In any event, Valcini turned out to be one of the very few Italian journalists who
– in writing about World War II and the Nazi occupation of Poland – did not fall
prey to Goebbel’s Propagandaministerium, unlike the much more celebrated
reporter Indro Montanelli.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Alceo Valcini, Varsavia, Ghetto, Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Corriere della Sera, Indro Montanelli
Elenco autori:
L. Bernardini
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