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In the News: Gino Bartali quietly used fame to save Jews in Fascist Italy
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----------------------------------------------------------------- In the worst years of the Second World War, it was not uncommon to see the great Gino Bartali cycling the roads between Florence and Assisi on a training run. The Italian was one of the most recognized sports figures in the country and throughout Europe. He won the Tour de France in 1938 and became a sporting hero to millions in Europe and North America. To the Fascist government that had ruled in Italy since the early 1920s, he was a slightly less appealing figure. When he won the Tour he refused to acknowledge dictator Benito Mussolini in his victory speech. He was also a devout Roman Catholic, something the Fascists detested. Three years after the war ended, Bartali entered the 1948 tour and did what was considered impossible — winning a second time after a 10-year gap and emerging at age 34 as one of the oldest men to come in first at one of the world’s most storied sporting events. For Aili and Andres McConnon, a brother and sister who grew up in Toronto, the story of what Bartali did on his bike and during the war became an obsession that led to a new book, Road To Valour: A True Story of World War II Italy, The Nazis, And The Cyclist Who Inspired A Nation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read it at http://life.nationalpost.com/2012/06...fascist-italy/ or http://tinyurl.com/7gkksw3 J. Spaceman |
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