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“Dad was Jewish. I remember when she read the news of the racial laws in the newspaper and cried. It was the worst moment of my life. ” Franca Valeri, 100 years old on 31 July, opens the drawer of memories in a long interview with Corriere della Sera.
He remembers that day in late April 1945 when he went to look at the corpses of the Duce and Claretta Petacci hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto. “My mom was desperate to know me around alone. In those days in Milan there was still shooting in the street. But I wanted to see if the Duce was really dead. And do you want to know if I felt pity? No. No mercy. It is now convenient to judge remotely. We must have experienced them, things. And we had suffered too much. “
Remember what happened after fascism. “For me, youth began on April 25: a late youth. But it was beautiful. In that Italy everything seemed possible “.
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