Felice Cascione

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Felice Cascione (born May 2, 1918 in Imperia , † January 27, 1944 in Alto ) was an Italian partisan and doctor . During the Second World War he was a member of the communist resistance and died in a gun battle with fascist units. He was posthumously awarded the Italian Medal of Valor . He became known as the author of the partisan song Fischia il vento , the melody of which is borrowed from the Russian love song Katyusha .

biography

Felice Cascione was born on May 2, 1918 to a poor family. His mother was a primary school teacher and his father Gio Batta Glockengießer . The father fell a few months after Felice was born in the First World War . From 1940 Felice was an active anti-fascist and in 1943 he graduated from the University of Bologna with a medical degree .

When the National Socialist troops occupied Italy on September 8, 1943 and proclaimed the Italian Social Republic , Cascione joined the Resistenza. As the commander of an improvised partisan brigade, the first in the province of Imperia , he became known under the name u mégu ( Ligurian for "The Doctor"). During a battle in which a first lieutenant and a soldier from the fascist black brigade were captured by the partisans, Cascione is said to have saved them from being shot and integrated them into their own unit.

Betrayed by this lieutenant, the partisans, led by Cascione, were ambushed by the Black Brigades on January 27, 1944. In the subsequent firefight, Cascione was seriously wounded and finally executed by the paramilitary forces.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alessandro Natta: Vita eroica di Felice Cascione , 1945/46, brochure of the Imperia section of the Italian Communist Party
  2. ↑ Francesco Biga: Felice Cascione e la sua canzone immortale , ISRECIM, 2007

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personal data
SURNAME Cascione, Felice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian surgeon and partisan
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Imperia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1944
Place of death Alto