Person · Camorrista / bandit
Albano
Background
The partisan leader of Torrito, a village near Aversa.
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In Naples ’44
Lewis reluctantly travels to Torrito to hear his account of the ‘heroic four days’ of the September 1943 uprising and the SS reprisal that followed — a massacre that has left the whole village in mourning. He finds Albano a haggard, haunted man who speaks very quietly, as if afraid of being overheard.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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December 20 1943Investigating a wartime denunciation case, Lewis interviews an informer with a criminal record about his role in betraying escaped Indian soldiers to the Germans.
bandit near Torrito, killed in a locally-arranged reprisal for looting rather than political resistance
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