Northern foothills of the Hermada, as seen from the valley of Brestovizza-Bretovica pri Komn Cursed Hermada “In the evening we stop, waiting for the Sektorkommando to send us a guide. In this area, the never-ending duel of the artillery is…
HERMADA PROJECT
Badge of the 28 k.u.k. Infantry Regiment, the lions of Mt. Hermada. Their nickname was “Prager kinder” (Prague children). We decided to actively rewrite our history. To tell the true history of Trieste. The history cancelled by Fascist Italy, which occupied us in November 1918 and…
PURGING…
ITALIAN RACIAL LAWS IN TRIESTE AND THE BURDENS OF A FASCIST LEGACY It is the anniversary of the shameful proclamation of Italian racial laws. It was September 18th, 1938, and the city of Trieste, annexed to Italy after World War…
THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS OF ITALIAN HISTORY: THE SECOND THIRTY YEARS’ WAR
The history of the past century has lead to the end of Mitteleuropa, swept away by rising nationalisms resulting in two World Wars, even better, to a long war that lasted thirty years (1914-1945). The second Thirty Years’ War, the…
…THEY RESISTED UNTIL THE END
Summer 1914: the Honvéd Infanterieregiment Nr. leaves for the Eastern Front. In June 1915 it will be transferred in the Southern sector of the Isonzo front. This Regiment, which distinguished itself defending Mt. San Michele, firmly defended the bastions of…
FREE TERRITORY OF TRIESTE AND RACIAL LAWS: A 1960 CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT
At the end of World War II, one of the first actions of the occupying Allied Military Government (A.M.G. V.G.) based in Trieste was to repeal the shameful racial laws force by Italy in 1938 against the Jews. It was…