It 'came out some time ago a book by Sergio Nesi, a former Uff.le of the vessels of the Xa MAS, which reconstructs the massacre Ozegna: Ozegna , July 8, 1944. Chronicle of a senseless slaughter, Sergio Nesi - The Scarab (Bologna) . In the book and in his blog, from which are drawn the following quotations in italics, Nesi biography quotes written by the writer, Andrea Lombardi, in 2005 . The decision that gives the Nesi my reconstruction of the life of the founder of Battalion Barbarigo is usually good. Unfortunately, during its close examination Bardelli the Commander and his military career in general and in particular on Ozegna, Nesi wrote (my emphasis and notes in brackets):
Bardelli was not a commander in the true sense and own, had the characteristics of a Master and Commander the meaning given in the Navy in these two words. Master, master, it was certainly because of his grades but not their Commander, was not a leader who puts the head of his men in battle, behaving toward them as a responsible father and sends them to slaughter needlessly . Bardelli, accustomed to this life and that din, not expressed with normal tone, but instinctively he spoke out loud or shouted his shots and d ' anger, as is well known and is confirmed in his biography, had uncontrollable .
(the "biography" mentioned would be mine; captiously Nesi uses some quotes: in several passages of my biography of the "hardness" of Bardelli is always followed by the words of those who knew him, from considerations of humanity and good nature, his work behind the gruff. Furthermore, "hard" or "decided" not necessarily synonymous with "irresponsible" outbursts "fit of nerves," as quotations from Nesi ... This incredible forcing Nesi, true act of intellectual dishonesty, speaks volumes about the goodness of his historiographical considerations "historic" and Ozegna on Bardelli, and its real purpose behind this book of "investigation". Nesi considerations on "Master and Commander", although out of place in the case of Bardelli, which, according to those who had been under his command, was a true leader of men , as it was an excellent engineer officer, the writer, who sails on the ships white, still sees them applied in the traditional but anachronistic "fences" that exist between Deck Officers and machine.)
During my visits to Ozegna I remembered them, because I thought maybe one of those guys who escaped from the hell of Neptune came to die on the square Umbertp of that village, without knowing why, and because of an irresponsible (which would Bardelli, my note).
why I can not understand all that fanaticism of some of the veterans Barbarigo toward the figure of the "Legendary Commander" fanaticism that I could also see the Field of Remembrance on duty when the speakers have recalled only Bardelli, completely forgetting that the battle of Anzio and Nettuno their true commander called Vallauri; Nettuno and Anzio and was also the St. George Group of Artillery, commanded by ten. bathtub. Renato Carnival.
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's the story of a senseless slaughter took place within minutes in the narrow square Ozegna, a small town in the Canavese, which occurred on the afternoon of 8 July 1944. About sixty men of the battalions' Barbarigo "and" Sagittarius "of the X MAS Flotilla under the command of Major Naval Engineers Umberto Bardelli, suddenly collided with a score of partisans under the command of their leader Piero urate, cover name" Piero Piero "After being mixed for about twenty minutes in friendly conversations. Suddenly, "Piero Piero" with a jump away from you Bardelli and shouted: "Commander, you are surrounded ... give up!" but Bardelli, taken by surprise, replied with another shout: "Barbarigo not surrender !...", but in an uncontrolled fit of nerves, unfortunately added: "FIRE!".
(Nesi wrote in his Ozegna that rejection of Cte Bardelli to surrender was an irresponsible act and only the result of a "temper tantrum", which brings the useless death of his Marò. In reality, the situation in the square of Ozegna was not that of "friendly conversations," but despite the efforts of dialogue between Bardelli and urate, very tense: the next entrance on the stage of Partisans of urate would hardly have led to a different outcome ... and we can not see how "irresponsible" or "uncontrolled fit of nerves" and the decision, but related fatal in full military honor, not surrender to the enemy without fighting - and here, unfortunately, plays nell'accanimento of his Nesi own biography, having just surrendered to the Allies at the end of an inconclusive mission to end the war, he rebuilt as is an epic undertaking. The writer, however, does not share the video in the "mission" of Nesi a real flight, the mission that will result in any case the end of the ward controlled by Nesi, left without orders and therefore easy prey for Tito. )
(The partisan leader urate, which killed Bardelli, this proving infinitely more human and militarily Nesi, said by telephone recently, speaking of his enemy, then, that "Bardelli was a brave, and would not have killed him")
(Actually, when you see the showdown-Nesi writes about his true motivations-"fanaticism ... ... Barbarigo some veterans of the field of memory", this book is not based on historical research without ira et studio, but only on personal grudges Nesi, cf. the long-standing and controversial issues concerning the design and construction of the Campo Memorial in Nettuno, which-rightly or wrongly-Nesi also involved, the ceremony of 2005 in the said Field Nesi, where he was treated by some veterans as Barbarigo unwelcome guest, or the repeated and certainly not laudatory reviews of departments to Nesi's ground Xa, and veterans Barbarigo in particular).
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