Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi - Eugenio explains sketches he drew during the war
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Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi - Eugenio explains sketches he drew during the war
Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi - Eugenio explains sketches he drew during the war
Transcript: We tried not to have images of this era. But despite this, as an old habit, every time I was able to get my hands on a piece of paper, I made some notes, some sketches which I later cleaned up some how. And these are the documents, the visual documentation from my... from my old habit of putting things down on paper. This is, for example, a picture done in the Aosta prison, the courtyard of the jail where you see a tower, one of the angular towers of the city so a high medieval tower that was divided in various zones, various floors and each zone was a cell. The cell where I was locked up was it had eight people and we kept each other company playing cards. But we weren't very relaxed. This is ... a sketch of an operation. You see the door of the barracks, a partisan who is running to the assault and beyond the door of the barracks, a armored car but the action is a surprise attack by the partisans and led to the occupation, disarmament of an arsenal and the capture of German soldiers who were traded. So, these were ... It is the capture of, on one hand, of the arms and, on the other, of the German soliders who were captured in a truck. And this is to give you an idea they were notes. We seen this scene produced in a small, quickly drawn sketch. These others were three partisans. And ... patrolling the German occupied zone, with their guns in hand, a platoon, they are three real-life people. Well, the first is Ugo Pecchioli, who later became a announcer and a fairly important politician. The other, I remember the name the battle name, he was Zagabria. I know that he worked in Pavia but I didn't hear about him after the war. The last one is Nello Corti, the son of Professor Corti of the University of Turin. He was a student. Brave, brave combatant came back from the Russian campaign. This picture shows ... shows the hunger in the last part of October, October-November of '44 when we only had polenta and apples to eat. This is Professor Corti. He came down from where we were fighting on 2 November 44. He has a gun in hand and is remembering his experiences from the First World War. This is the most banal picture but it is a sort of self-portrait of two partisans in an exploratory platoon on the northern slope of the mountain of the valley. One of the two is a self-portrait. These two were couriers. And this is a picture that shows the role of the women. These are women who are doing a very important job. They were able to hike 12 hours in the high mountains to go from one valley to another to bring a message or a note. And this last picture shows a funeral of a partisan fallen during combat. His name was Giorgio Elter. His father was the director of the mines in Cogne. And he had participated in an assault on a roadblock in Aosta. The expedition finished tragically, in fact, with the death of this boy.
Transcript: We tried not to have images of this era. But despite this, as an old habit, every time I was able to get my hands on a piece of paper, I made some notes, some sketches which I later cleaned up some how. And these are the documents, the visual documentation from my... from my old habit of putting things down on paper. This is, for example, a picture done in the Aosta prison, the courtyard of the jail where you see a tower, one of the angular towers of the city so a high medieval tower that was divided in various zones, various floors and each zone was a cell. The cell where I was locked up was it had eight people and we kept each other company playing cards. But we weren't very relaxed. This is ... a sketch of an operation. You see the door of the barracks, a partisan who is running to the assault and beyond the door of the barracks, a armored car but the action is a surprise attack by the partisans and led to the occupation, disarmament of an arsenal and the capture of German soldiers who were traded. So, these were ... It is the capture of, on one hand, of the arms and, on the other, of the German soliders who were captured in a truck. And this is to give you an idea they were notes. We seen this scene produced in a small, quickly drawn sketch. These others were three partisans. And ... patrolling the German occupied zone, with their guns in hand, a platoon, they are three real-life people. Well, the first is Ugo Pecchioli, who later became a announcer and a fairly important politician. The other, I remember the name the battle name, he was Zagabria. I know that he worked in Pavia but I didn't hear about him after the war. The last one is Nello Corti, the son of Professor Corti of the University of Turin. He was a student. Brave, brave combatant came back from the Russian campaign. This picture shows ... shows the hunger in the last part of October, October-November of '44 when we only had polenta and apples to eat. This is Professor Corti. He came down from where we were fighting on 2 November 44. He has a gun in hand and is remembering his experiences from the First World War. This is the most banal picture but it is a sort of self-portrait of two partisans in an exploratory platoon on the northern slope of the mountain of the valley. One of the two is a self-portrait. These two were couriers. And this is a picture that shows the role of the women. These are women who are doing a very important job. They were able to hike 12 hours in the high mountains to go from one valley to another to bring a message or a note. And this last picture shows a funeral of a partisan fallen during combat. His name was Giorgio Elter. His father was the director of the mines in Cogne. And he had participated in an assault on a roadblock in Aosta. The expedition finished tragically, in fact, with the death of this boy.