Auf Wiedersehen Claretta. Il diario dell’uomo che poteva salvare Mussolini e la Petacci

A long time has passed since that autumn of 1943, when, with a bunch of white chrysanthemums, I went to my appointment with Claretta, the young and beautiful lover of the Duce. Since then I have never again happened to buy or give the flowers of the dead, as she had jokingly called them. In spite of everything, those flowers had brought her luck; so she told me on returning from her first meeting with her lover in Gargnano. She would have liked more of them, she confided to me when I saw her for the last time, with defeat imminent…». So begins the memoir written by the man whom SS General Karl Wolff, the supreme commander of the SS and of the Nazi Police in Italy, chose as driver and escort of Claretta Petacci from Merano to Gargnano, on Lake Garda. An unpublished document of extraordinary interest, which casts a shaft of light on the private life of the man who was, together with Hitler, the most powerful and feared man of the old continent, revealing a human dimension unknown to the general public. But also an unknown page of history which, many decades after the events, reveals some of the obscure points that formed the backdrop to the last act of the history of Fascism