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(ANSA) – MILAN, OCT 03 – 76 years after his death, one of the many soldiers who lost their lives in the Second World War returns home from Germany and from tomorrow he will meet his wife Maria Ida in the cemetery of Romagnese (Pavia), a 26-year-old widow and her son Lorenzo, who died a year ago and who last saw him at age 5. This is the case of Pietro Venni, first alpine and later called to the Infantry.
In the afternoon there will be a religious and then commemorative ceremony.
“A soldier – remember his nephews Enrico and Pietro Venni – who served his homeland as an Alpine by participating in war missions in Montenegro, risking his life, then returning home and being called to the war zone and captured together with the recruits of the 1914 and 1915 class called to reconstitute the 38th Infantry Battalion, Ravenna almost completely destroyed in the Russian campaign, at the Passalacqua barracks in Tortona (Alessandria) “.
Here Pietro Venni was taken in September 1943 and transferred from Tortona to Germany, where he was interned in a prison camp and held for at least a year before being taken, now terminally ill, to die in the prisoner of war hospital in Weingarten at only 29 years old. Buried in the civil cemetery of Weingarten (on Lake Constance on the Austrian-German border) with military honors rendered by the Wermacht, the German armed forces, he had recently been transferred to the Italian military honor cemetery in Munich.
The grandchildren made “an investigation through the Ministry of Defense”, with which they then contacted to “make him return home.” (HANDLE).
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