Naples ’44

Place · Landmark

Filangieri prison

In the book

The Naples women’s prison the section is repeatedly ordered to deliver women to on flimsy or political charges — a German-born wife, a woman the partisans had jailed — with frantic last-minute collections of warm clothing for those sent into its cold.

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Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. October 25 1943
    Lewis reflects on the city's collapse into near-medieval conditions — makeshift clothing, scavenging, and looting of abandoned military equipment.
  2. December 5 1943
    Lewis avoids an unwanted arrest by spending the day on unrelated errands, reflecting on the unit's discomfort with being used for private vendettas.

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