After Hannibal (2011)
“The Germans were frightened by the scale and boldness of the attack. There had already been some assassinations of fascist officials and on the first of that same month several hundred thousand Italian workers downed tools in Turin and Milan, bringing production to a standstill for a week. There was fear of a general uprising. The authorities decided upon reprisals. The only question was how many to kill. Settlement of this question involved most of the key German military and diplomatic offici...als in Italy. My father among them. My father knew, before he spoke to me that afternoon, he knew about the panic, he knew that Marshal Kesselring’s headquarters had informed Hitler, who had wanted at first to have fifty Italians shot for each German policeman killed. He knew that in subsequent phone calls this had been toned down to a ratio of ten to one.
Ritter paused in his work, and the silence of the place, which had been held off by his own small movements, descended on him. Somewhere below, near the stream, a bird sang briefly.MoreLess
Ritter paused in his work, and the silence of the place, which had been held off by his own small movements, descended on him. Somewhere below, near the stream, a bird sang briefly.MoreLess
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