Codice albumGBB-F-004980

Codice inventarioGBB-F-004980-0000

1937 ca, SPAIN : The lawyer, politician, military soldier and dangerous fanatic Fascist italian ARCONOVALDO BONACORSI (Conte Aldo Rossi) (1898 - 1962), expelled from Partito Nazionale Fascista in 1932 for his friendship with dangerous fascist Leandro Arpinati. Bonacorsi was, in 1926, reputed a responsable of death of Anteo Zamboni during the attemp to Duce BENITO MUSSOLINI (1883 - 1945) in Bologna. He played (with the nickname " Generale Conde Rossi ") a prominent role in organising the Falangist conquest of the island of Majorca during the Spanish Civil War, during which they were carried out mass shootings that claimed the lives of hundreds of people. Bonaccorsi received from Francisco Franco the "Gran Cruz militar de Espana" in 1937. Finally he was a prisoner of war from 19411946 ; after the war he resumed his legal and political activities, and defended the Nazi Otto Wagener who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for atrocities he had committed in Rodi during World War II. Bonaccorsi was a candidate for the Italian Social Movement (neo-fascist MSI) in 1958.

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