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Borovnica and other Tito camps
Franco Giuseppe Gobbato has managed to reconstruct, with various diaries and sources of prisoners, with scientific data provided by Slovenian Institutes, with documents drawn from various Archives, with testimonies of Allied origin, of the International Red Cross and of the Military Hospital of Udine, the tragic moments of the life of the prisoners of the Borovnica Concentration Camp (SLO) also known as the "hell of the living dead". The numerous transit and permanent camps that were opened in other places of the former Yugoslavia where Italians were present have not been overlooked. A "story" to be discovered, now enriched with new important and unique documents after 15...
Special issue of Dalmatica Magazine dedicated to the horrors of Borovnica
The dossier intended for the Paris conference of 1947 is a sad sample of atrocities "Secret - October 5, 1945 - Conditions of Italian internees in Yugoslavia with particular reference to the Borovnica camp and the military hospital of Skofja Loka both called the death camp". From the title of the first typewritten page, the report of our services that emerges from the past makes your skin crawl. "Shootings for nothing", "torture at the stake", "forced labor", "living skeletons" are the terrible words that are repeated in the testimonies of Italian soldiers captured after the war and who survived Tito's concentration camps. A classified report of horror...
The trial on the foibe was blocked
Sergio Dini, former head of the military prosecutor's office in Padua: «We had identified those responsible but the investigation was transferred from the Supreme Court and disappeared. The commander of the Borovnica concentration camp? He received an Italian pension until his death» by Andrea Pasqualetti - Il Corriere della Sera - 11/02/2021 Source: Storia In Rete Doctor Sergio Dini, when you were the military prosecutor of Padua you investigated the foibe. It was the early 1945s. What did you discover? «First of all we had identified the commander of the Slovenian partisans of the IX Corpus, the partisan unit of Tito's army that between May and June XNUMX had occupied Gorizia, arranging for the arrest and killing...
