World War II was a terrible event, the greatest military conflict in human history.
A catastrophe that, in its many interpretations, is still capable of dividing the opinions of historians and scholars. In fact, numerous mysteries, enigmas and problems persist that, due to state secrecy, cannot be solved.
We will talk about the enigmatic and mysterious flight of the hierarch Rudolf Hess to Scotland in 1941 to negotiate a separate peace with the United Kingdom; the odyssey of Hitler's corpse; the case of the medium Helen Duncan, famous during the Second World War for having revealed information on sunken ships, arousing the interest (and irritation) of the British authorities; finally the enigmatic disappearance of Glenn Miller, American myth of swing...
The ambassador Domenico Vecchioni, through 20 short stories, has collected events of the Second World War that have been removed from memory or poorly told with his latest "Unusual Stories of the Second World War".
Wednesday 15 at 21.00 we meet the author to learn about some of the most jealously guarded secrets of the Third Reich, the forgotten or deliberately hidden tragedies of both sides of the conflict, and the stories of spies and double agents who, through adventurous enterprises, made a fundamental contribution to the defeat of Nazism.
See you there!
