Naples ’44

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Zona di Camorra

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In Naples ’44

Lewis’s own name for the belt of towns north of Naples he is given to police: ‘unknowingly located deep in Camorra territory’, picturesque on the surface, poor and criminally governed underneath.

Appears in 6 diary entries.

  1. December 20 1943
    Investigating a wartime denunciation case, Lewis interviews an informer with a criminal record about his role in betraying escaped Indian soldiers to the Germans.
  2. January 5 1944
    Lewis takes charge of security for several nearby towns, unknowingly located deep in Camorra territory, and finds poverty behind their picturesque exteriors.
  3. January 7 1944
    A visit to Donna Maria "La Pitonessa," a former circus performer turned wealthy landowner, in the Camorra zone.
  4. May 3 1944
    The story of Domenico "Lupo" (Wolf), a released bandit who reorganizes his Camorra-style Robin Hood operation with Allied-issued credentials.
  5. June 4 1944
    A brutal act of vigilante revenge against Moroccan soldiers accused of atrocities is reported, carried out with ritualized, disturbing cruelty.
  6. July 12 1944
    A rare day off as tourist to Pozzuoli reveals a town strangely untouched by the war, calmer and more foreign-feeling than the rest of the Naples area.

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