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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with Paolo Bottani]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[World War (1939-1945)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Bombing, Aerial]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Paolo Bottani recalls wartime memories as part of a working-class family in Milan. He describes the widespread enthusiasm for the declaration of war, followed by a relatively calm period. He remembers the alarms being greeted, initially, with joy because classes stopped, as well as the care-free attitude of children who used to salvage shell casings for their scrap value. He recalls the first bombing he witnessed when in Crema and gives a detailed account of the Precotto primary school bombing, where he was trapped underground and brought to safety thanks to the efforts of a rescue party. Paolo describes the aftermath of the bombing on the surrounding areas and explains how the authorities presented him as evidence of the Allies’ brutality. He recalls his life as an evacuee: fear, hunger, cold and painful frostbites; disrupted communication; destroyed bridges replaced by precarious footbridges; strafing. He recollects events at end of the war and describes shaven-headed female collaborators being paraded in shame. He tells of a life-long distress reaction to sirens and connects his strong pacifist stance to the experience of being bombed.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2016-12-02]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:contributor><![CDATA[<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=37&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Francesca+Campani">Francesca Campani</a>]]></dcterms:contributor>
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    <dcterms:rights><![CDATA[ This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.]]></dcterms:rights>
    <dcterms:format><![CDATA[00:33:25 audio recording]]></dcterms:format>
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