Word: badoglio
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Died. Otto Skorzeny, 67, audacious Nazi SS colonel, saboteur and guerrilla fighter during World War II; of bronchial cancer; in Madrid. Skorzeny led the September 1943 glider-borne rescue of Benito Mussolini from the mountain-top hotel where he had been imprisoned by the pro-Allied Badoglio government. The exploit earned him the Iron Cross and der Fuhrer's gratitude, which he repaid by helping to thwart the July 1944 plot against Hitler, rallying SS units and halting a wave of executions so that Gestapo torturers could extract from conspirators the extent of the plot. As German armies pressed...
...hundreds of psychological portraits of war figures, Macmillan thus characterized Mussolini's successor, Marshal Badoglio: "Honest, broadminded, humorous. I should judge of peasant origin." It might stand also as a fair self-portrait of the grandson of a Scots crofter...
...Naples attacks these themes without pretense, and the result is an unusually appealing permutation of standard war-story elements. Permutation is the appropriate word here, because this Italian film has no new novelties to offer. It gives a straight forward account of civilian resistance to a German occupation after Badoglio's surrender in September, 1943. The citizens of Naples hail the armistice, then discover that Hitler intends to defend Italy and treat his former allies as a conquered people. When the Wehrmacht starts rounding up men for labor crews in Germany, Naples rebells. Four days later the harassed Germans release...
...Four Days of Naples. On Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted...
...Fight!" cries Mussolini. "Surrender!' says Badoglio. The lieutenant wants to do his duty, but what is his duty? Which is his lawful commander-in-chief ? Who are his enemies-the Allies, who are not shooting at him, or the Germans, who are? Unable to decide, the lieutenant and his men decide to go home, and as they go the camera follows them through painful alternations of laughter and slaughter...