Growing up in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy

Download or read book Growing up in Mussolini’s Fascist Italy written by Christine Foster Meloni and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Meloni was born in Year VI (1928) of the Fascist Era in Italy. In his memoir he tells stories about growing up in Mussolini’s Italy. In elementary school he delighted in being a little fascist, participating in military drills in his schoolyard and the streets of Rome. As a teenager he gradually became disillusioned with fascism as Mussolini led Italy into World War II on the side of Germany and eventually fell from power when the Allies began their invasion of Italy. He describes the first years of his life living in extreme poverty in the village of Acuto (Frosinone), his move to Rome at age five, the years under Mussolini followed by the terrors of the German occupation of Rome and the dangerous civil war between fascists and partisans, and finally the overwhelming post-war devastation.