(ANSA) - MILAN, 03 OCT - 76 years after his death one of the soldiers who lost their lives in the Second World War returns home from Germany and from tomorrow he will join his wife Maria Ida, widowed at 26, in the cemetery of Romagnese (Pavia) years and to his son Lorenzo, who passed away a year ago and who last saw him at the age of 5.
This is the case of Pietro Venni, first Alpine and then recalled 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 warfare missions in Montenegro, risking his life, only to return home and be called back to the war zone and captured together with the 1914 and 1915 class scripts called to reconstitute the 38th Infantry Battalion, Ravenna almost completely annihilated in the Russian campaign, in the Passalacquadi 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 Weingarten prisoner of war hospital for only 29 years old.
Buried in the civil cemetery of Weingarten (on Lake Constance bordering Austria and Germany) with military honors rendered by the Wermacht, the German armed forces, he had recently been moved to the Italian Military Cemetery of Honor in Munich.
The grandchildren did "some research through the Ministry of Defense", with which they are subsequently put in contact to "make him go home".
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