in the picture: Polish soldiers in 1944 to Predappio Emanuele Chesi
"Although he leaves the hospitable city of Forlì I offer to God Hottest prayer for the freedom of oppressed Poland, Italy and prosperity 'as the inscription of the plaque in St Mercurial by the Polish military Kresowa Division. I soldiers who had fought valiantly up the peninsula to Monte Cassino and Ancona to Bologna, Forlì officially leave Nov. 15, 1947. Emilia Il Giornale reported the next day the record of the celebrations presided over by civil authorities, the Polish commander Piatkowski and by Bishop. Rolla, with these words: "After the salute to the last Polish units from the start, something beyond the hype, was something that will stay in the heart of Romagna and Italy, something big, which will remain in history, and something small but extremely important and will remain in life. "
Polish soldiers, after an initial time of suspicion for the 'city of Il Duce', had in fact set the best in Romagna. Obvious hostility (replacement) to the communists, the Polish catholic we had found a second home. And many - says even the Journal of Emilia seven thousand - had even found a wife. "Children chubby arms supported by Polish and Italian ': This is the image chosen by the contemporary chronicler, Arnaldo Bueri to emphasize the special relationship which evolved around the tragedy of war. A bond that has been perpetuated over the years thanks to the lively Italian-Polish Forlì and the association of veterans.
Army created by the Polish General Anders was born in 1942 in Iraq: there were gathered the patriots who survived the Nazi occupation and former concentration camp by Soviet soldiers freed under pressure from English, after the failure of the alliance between Hitler and Stalin. Italy sent in early 1944 (but other contingents fought with the Allies in Africa and then in Normandy), the Polish soldiers were covered with honor deserving the symbolic recognition of the 'conquest' of Predappio, October 24, 1944 , on the anniversary of the March on Rome. In 1939, Mussolini had greeted the Nazi invasion with an enthusiastic "Poland is dismissed." Five years after he wrote an official Anders in the register of the visits the birthplace of Mussolini: "Poland is not settled."
IN ROMAGNA Poles took part in the bloodiest fighting, paying a heavy toll. Their contribution to the liberation of our lands was crucial. It has not always been recognized in the right shape.
THE CEREMONIES 's farewell November 15, 1947 were "short and simple," writes the Journal of Emilia. In the church of Saint Lucia was officiated a religious ceremony presided over by the Polish chaplain Adalberto Rolek, in the presence of the Bishop of Forlì. The link between Italy and Poland (highlighted even in the verses of the two anthems national) was enhanced with the laying of a wreath at the tombstone, under the portico of City Hall, which commemorates the sacrifice of Francesco Nullo, Forlì fallen hero for freedom in Poland in 1863. And to the Poles, who was preparing to return to a country now under the iron heel of the Soviet was not secondary to remember the struggle for independence from Russia.
CONCLUDING ceremonies with a short speech, Colonel Piatkowski paid tribute to four thousand deaths of the Polish in Italy. The chorus of the soldiers of the 2nd Corps who sang the national anthem sealed the solemnity of the moment. "Out of the fog melted in a drizzle thick dense - says the chronicler of journalists - and that did seemed to rub the faces and also the current officers of the 2nd Polish Corps property at attention, away from the porch. "
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