Uomini, non più soldati. Racconti degli internati militari italini in Germania

• Autores: Gabriella Gribaudi
• Localización: Quaderni storici, ISSN 0301-6307, Anno 49, Nº 146, 2014, págs. 599-639
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The article deals with the story of the Italian military interness (IMI) in Germany through the oral histories of 23 veterans, collected between 1995 and 1998. The sotires can be divided into two parts. In the first part, we find some shared representations that evoke a large "hypertext" of imprisonment and deportation. The images, created by similar experiences, become an encoded memory, producing a chaing of mutual recognition. The first person plural is the subject of the narrative. The second part, that starts from the the conversion of prisoners in civilians workers, is very different. The subject is no longer just a victim with little chance of action but the active protagonist. The stories are individual and the tones of adventure prevail. While the man-soldier is defeated, the ordinary man wins his battle for survival: he emerges from the ruins of war as an active subject capable of moving through the loopholes of a repressive system and, as a man rather than a soldier, building relationships with German women, beyond the logics of war, which, moreover, had already been swept away by events.