Naples ’44

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Via Roma

Via Roma
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Background

Via Toledo is an ancient street and one of the most important shopping thoroughfares in the city of Naples, Italy. The street is almost 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) long and starts at Piazza Dante and ends in Piazza Trieste e Trento, near Piazza del Plebiscito.

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In Naples ’44

Naples’s main thoroughfare, backdrop to street scenes of the black market trading openly and, at its bleakest, a mother trying to sell her daughter.

Appears in 5 diary entries.

  1. March 5 1944
    The growing, increasingly careless traffic of "line-crossers" and letter-couriers moving between Allied and German territory raises serious security concerns.
  2. March 26 1944
    Amid desperate poverty, Lewis is confronted by a mother attempting to sell her young daughter for sex — a stark instance of wartime destitution.
  3. April 24 1944
    Frazer and Lola's tumultuous romance continues through breakups, threats of suicide, and reconciliation.
  4. May 9 1944
    The black market's scale and brazenness are staggering — stolen Allied goods are openly, even elegantly, advertised for sale near the courts trying petty thieves.
  5. October 20 1944
    Official policy strongly discourages marriages between soldiers and Italian civilians, citing poor historical outcomes for such wartime unions.

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