Naples ’44

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Santa Maria a Vico

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In Naples ’44

One of the towns near Afragola terrorised by deserting Moroccan troops in mid-1944; Lewis goes there to see a girl driven insane by a gang rape.

Appears in 1 diary entry.

  1. May 28 1944
    A grim account of widespread, brutal mass sexual violence against civilians committed by French colonial troops advancing through nearby towns.

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