Una storia sbagliata. Azzariti, Badoglio, Biancheri, Hudal, Orlandi, Costermano: Un secolo di bugie e di mezze verità

What, and how much, do we know about some of the protagonists of twentieth-century Italian history? Is there a narrative different from the one that at least three generations of Italians have handed down to their children? How many pieces of truth, and which ones, have been distorted or taken away from the reality of the facts? Pietro Badoglio, Gaetano Azzariti and Alois Hudal. A general of the Royal Italian Army, a senior magistrate who became president of the Constitutional Court, and a bishop of the Holy Roman Church. What do these three people have in common, who, rightly or wrongly, helped to write some of the darkest and most controversial pages of the twentieth century? And further, what does it mean to find oneself at the centre of history purely by chance? The untold story of the “no” of Luigi Biancheri, admiral of the Royal Italian Navy, who without being aware of it saved thousands of Tunisian Jews from deportation to the Nazi camps. And also that of Carlo Orlandi who, in October 1940, rescued most of the shipwrecked passengers of the “Pentcho”, the protagonists of the most incredible of the escapes from antisemitic Europe. Finally, the singular story of a cemetery that has reserved a grave and a cross for some of the worst criminals in the history of humankind