Why Do I Have A Lot Of Moles

Partisan Race

Office to the enhancement of memory in Rome

The newsletter of the Memory

This latest issue of the Newsletter of the Memory concludes the work done over the past five years by the Office of Adviser to the Mayor for the Historical Memory. The date of April 25 with an essay by Luigi Stanziani on a little-known hero of our liberation and very significant.

LIBERATION - June 4, 1944 liberation of Rome

Aprile1945 25, the Italian territory from the Liberation of Nazi-fascist

Two key dates in the history of our city and our country. E 'right and proper to remember always. This year we want to do it through the story of Giorgio Marincola, our young fellow, the only Italian-Somali decorated with a gold medal for military valor. Giorgio Marincola born in Mahaddei Uen (Somalia) near Mogadishu (the capital of Somalia, then Italian colony), September 23, 1923 by Joseph, an infantry officer and a local woman, Ashkiro. His father never married her mother because the laws prohibiting racial intermarriage, forcing many to flee the Italian military families or to escape the control of the Italian State. According to the manual of the fascist "the cross between two breeds is harmful both. The prestige of race is not maintained, if the blood is mixed. "Giorgio soon moved to Rome with his father and sister. His Italian-African youth must not have been easy in an era in which, again quoting the manual: "the mongrel is a morally and physically inferior easy victim of serious illness and more prone to defects reprehensible." Umberto I attended the high school, where he among professors Pilo Albertelli (which was later named the High School) that deeply affects him and his friends founded the Action Party in the capital and organizing guerrilla warfare until his assassination at the Fosse Ardeatine, March 24, 1944. In 1941, George entered the University for specialize in tropical medicine and return to Somalia, but has no way to conclude the study. He is active in the Action Party, participating in the ill-fated defense of Rome within the Justice and Freedom, added in the third zone (Nomentano-Parioli-Salario). The actions are classic: sabotage, propaganda, night attacks on German troops, carrying weapons. He joined the then

partisan operating in Viterbo. On June 4, Rome is finally free. Giorgio Marincola, however, decided to continue the fight in the north and joins, with the rank of lieutenant, in the "Special Force" of the Allied Command. In August 1944 he was parachuted in Piedmont. The "Lieutenant George" (also use aliases of Marcuzio, Mercury Marine, the surname of an uncle with whom he grew up), organized in Biella sabotage and attacks on Nazi forces. Renders valuable services in the organizational and information, and participates in numerous gun battles also remain wounded and demonstrating remarkable courage and firm resolve. It is captured by the Germans January 17, 1945, near Zimone (BI), as he returns from a visit to Milan on behalf of the organization "Franks." Taken in Biella at Villa Schneider, "Marine" is forced to talk to the Nazi-fascist "Radio Hut". They ask what is for him, African homeland. Despite the torture, respond in exemplary fashion. "I feel the nation as a culture and a feeling of freedom, not as a color anywhere on the map. The country is not identified with the fascist dictatorships like that. Country means freedom and justice for the peoples of the world. For this fight the oppressors. "After a hard captivity, freed from a mission to an ally, refuses to save themselves through Switzerland and still holding their weapons, along with supporters from Trentino. He died at Castel di Fiemme (TN), May 4, 1945, ie 10 days after the date celebrated as Liberation, colliding with a detachment of SS retreat that, Stramentizzo implements the last Nazi massacre in Italy (27 massacred between patriots and innocent civilians). The grounds of the Gold Medal Valor said: "Young college student, just after the armistice took part in the liberation struggle, the very distinguished Roman underground formations for decision, for capacity for courage. "

In January 1946, the University of Rome has given to the memory of Giorgio Marincola honorary degree, was 22.

The City of Rome in 2006, on a proposal dell'ANCIS, identified and defined in Cesano, Via Fosso between the transom and Via Giuseppe Greccio in XX Municipio, Via Giorgio Marincola.

20 hours Thursday, June 26, presentation of "Race partisan. Story of Giorgio Marincola" editions Iacobelli (2008) with authors Carlo Costa e Lorenzo Teodone. The book is a complete history of the short life of George. The authors went to research in the archives with a meticulous work of all the news related to George. It 'a reconstruction of the last part of his life and the memories of people who knew him.