Naples ’44

Person · Police official

Marshal Altamura

Background

The SIM secret-police officer who effectively runs Benevento — ‘handsome, good-humoured, quite imperturbable’ and exuding ‘sinister power’.

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In Naples ’44

Ordered by Naples to place himself at Lewis’s disposal, he stage-manages Lewis’s introduction to the town’s notables; but an anonymous letter, and the wounding of Durham, leave Lewis increasingly uneasy that the Marshal is in league with the bandits.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. August 20 1944
    The local Marshal frets over bandit threats to the town, but Lewis notes how absurdly under-armed and unprepared the local security forces really are.

    local Carabinieri marshal in Benevento; later suspected via an anonymous letter of involvement with one of the bandit gangs

  2. September 16 1944
    A section colleague is shot and wounded by a bandit disguised as an American officer, forcing Lewis to weigh his own role in the anti-bandit effort.

    Lewis grows increasingly uneasy about his alliance with the marshal amid suspicions of bandit collusion

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