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Varutti The Lost Homeland

The lost homeland in the CRP of Laterina

The Lost Homeland is the new book on the refugees of Venezia Giulia written by Elio Varutti, of the ANVGD of Udine, with the precious collaboration of Claudio Ausilio, of the ANVGD of Arezzo, for the publisher Aska of Florence. Those who lost their homeland, after the Second World War, were the Italian citizens of Fiume, Pola and Zara and a part of those of Gorizia and Trieste. Their lands, their homes and their belongings were given to Yugoslavia as compensation for the damages of the war wanted by the Duce and the King. 350 thousand were expelled, or had to leave with regular documents, to pour into the rest of stepmother Italy, with the fear of the foibe. Many passed through the Centers...