Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.11
Object Name
Poster
Title
arrestato dalla gestapo
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is the 11th in a collection of posters about Pietro Nenni, an Italian socialist politician who was also the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and a lifetime Senator since 1970. This poster is titled "Arrested by the Gestapo. Imprisoned, silenced." and features a photo of Nenni with his granddaughter alonside an ID badge he used in Rome. Text underneath the photos reads: "In the photo above, Nenni on a bicycle with her granddaughter Danielle in France in 1941;
and below a document issued to Pietro Nenni under the name of "Doctor Pietro Emiliani". After 8 September 1943 Nenni lived clandestinely in Rome and carried out an intense political activity, representing the PSI in the National Liberation Committee" whilst text to the side reads "After the end of the war in Spain, the pact of unity of action with the Communists enters into crisis following the Russian-German treaty, which Nenni stigmatizes in the article in the << Nuovo Avanti >> of 31 August 1939, «The turnaround of politics Soviet >>. On 12 June 1940 he was forced to flee to escape the German advance on French territory. In 1941 he signed a new pact of unity of action between socialists, communists and << Justice and Freedom >> in Toulouse. In January 1942 in the Pyrenees, where it is Refugee with his family following the German occupation of Paris, he begins to publish on the mimeograph "Il Nuovo Avanti", distributed clandestinely in Southern France. Six issues come out. On 17 March 1942 he was arrested by the French police and assigned to a forced home in Saint Flour. On February 8, 1943, by order of the Gestapo, he was arrested; it passes through the prisons of Fresnes, Trier, Munich, Innsbruck. On 5 April he is handed over to the fascist secret police. Transferred to Regina Coeli, he is then confined to Ponza, where he learns that his daughter Vittoria died in Auschwitz. He remained in Ponza until after 25 July, when he saw Mussolini arriving, confined by the king: «I would like to resume the conversation with Mussolini interrupted 20 years ago in Cannes, the last time I spoke with him ...». He is released on August 4th. On the 22nd, at the re-establishment meeting of the Socialist Party (PSIUP) he was elected secretary, and appointed director of the Avanti!"
