A 99-year-old former Italian soldier
is suing Germany for damages caused by the ordeal he suffered as
an internee in a Nazi concentration camp linked to Auschwitz.
Quinto Nunzi, from Civitanova Marche, spent almost three years
in the Myslowice camp and now wants 130,000 euros in
compensation for his mental and physical suffering there.
A recent fracture f the femur and a bout of COVID have weakened
him a bit but he is very lucid in his wartime memories, in an
interview with ANSA.
"I suffered an awful lot, in those moments we couldn't wait to
die to put an end to all that pain," he says in his Marche home,
showing the medal for military valour he won during WWII.
"Together with other soldiers I was captured in 1943 by Geran
soldiers in (the northern town of) Gorizia", after Italy sued
for peace with the Allies and the Nazis set up a puppet
Mussolini-led republic in the north of Italy.
"They told us they were going to take us to Germany, we were
treated worse than animals, and anyone who rebelled was shot."
Nunzi's children Fabiola and Tonino add: "Our father tells
anyone he meets about hi war years and his desire is to gain
some compensation".
After the armistice with the Allies, thousands of Italian
soldiers were taken to German internment camps and many died
there.
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