(August 22, 2016) “I have told my partisan story to my children and my grandchildren, I told my students, in elementary school, I told my co-workers in Norway, on Italian and Norwegian newspapers. I will continue to tell it until I have the strength and until I see a sign of interest in the eyes of my listeners. ” Valerio Tosi has told his story in the book “Under the shade of a beautiful flower – comparing Italian and Norwegian Resistance” (Ibiskos Publishing Risolo), aware of the fact that the Resistance was a complex and varied mosaic. The book will be the focus of a conference – in Italian – scheduled for September 1 (6 PM) at the Italian Institute of Culture in Oslo. In his book Tosi tells his story, with discretion and modesty, aware that the Resistance in Italy was a complex and varied mosaic, and that his greatness consists of many, sometimes very small, tiles. The author also outlines the cross-section of the Norwegian Resistance, geographically and substantially so far from ours: a country that did not experience civil war, in which the German occupiers had a very different and, if possible, better relationship with the population. A country that was able to consistently pursue and punish its pro-Nazi citizens and collaborators, to the point of getting to reinstate the death penalty (abolished in 1909) just long enough to condemn the guilty and then bury it again. (Red)
“Sotto l’ombra di un bel fiore”: Italian and Norwegian resistance compared
