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My grandfather Danilo Pastorboni was a paratrooper in the Italian army stationed first in occupied Yugoslavia and after being taken back by the reality of his anti-partisan duty he asked to be relocated to the para’ school in Tarquinia, where he trained the Indian POW/volunteers of the Azad Hindoustan batallion. After the armistice he became a partisan himself and went on to do his part in the reconstruction of the country and the growth of the post-war Italian republic.
There is a debate in Italy about how actually belligerent the Italian partisans were, amongst a newly found pacifism of the ANP (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani) which has grown in recent years. Can you shed some light on military actions of the partisans which in a way “redeemed” some of Italy’s honour in the latter years of WW2?
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