The Memory of Italy’s Emigrant Soldiers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2025
The epilogue reflects on the memory of the 300,000 Italian emigrant soldiers today, in Italy and elsewhere. In the interwar period, emigrant communities erected monuments and commemorative plaques to the emigrant soldiers who had died on the battlefields between 1915 and 1918. The decision about whether and how to commemorate the ‘fallen soldiers’ from emigrant communities was one taken at a local level and usually a result of the interests and priorities of specific figures or groups, both state and civilian. There is no evidence of any coordinated programme of commemoration or coherent timeline. Today, there is little public awareness of the emigrant soldiers and neither did the centenary of the war, between 2014 and 2018, bring about any widespread recognition of their role and experiences in the war.
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