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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Interview with Alberto Dini]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[World War (1939-1945)]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:subject><![CDATA[Bombing, Aerial]]></dcterms:subject>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Alberto Dini recalls his wartime life in Trieste starting from the declaration of war until the end of the conflict. He describes life under the bombs, highlighting disruption of utilities, devastated streets and chequered schooling history. He describes the bombing on the 10 June 1944, mentioning the sense of impending doom he felt immediately before being hit by a blow. He highlights the belief that nothing bad could happen to him and stresses the importance of his positive attitude as a coping strategy. Alberto talks about childrens’ pastimes, such as mimicking aircraft dogfights, playing Mikado or cops and robbers, trading toy soldiers, cards and comics. He recounts wartime anecdotes: assembling a makeshift Christmas tree; wood-pilfering after curfew; and the encounter with a Luftwaffe serviceman who foretold how he would have a career as a pilot. He tells of how he tried to escape the vigilance of the warden to play hide-and-seek outside and reminisces on life in large underground public shelters: dripping walls, fetid sweat, damp air, and the smell of rot. Alberto remembers the omnipresent scent of Melissa (Melissa officinalis) then widely used as a cure-all. He describes how his elder brother came home after he had witnessed the bombing of Nuremberg and urged his relatives to never use domestic shelters. He talks of Father Placek, a Bohemian priest who disappeared during the war, and another member of the clergy who defied the authorities. He describes &quot;Pippo&quot; dropping small bombs, identifying the aircraft as a Storch (Fi 156). Alberto maintains people had a non-judgemental view on bombing and saw the Allies as liberators. He never heard civilians cursing aircrew. He describes how he tried to forget the war until recently. In hindsight, he considers himself a lucky man because wartime hardships gave him a greater resilience that helped him later in life.]]></dcterms:description>
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    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2017-01-05]]></dcterms:date>
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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[00:52:49 audio recording]]></dcterms:format>
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    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ADiniA170105]]></dcterms:identifier>
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