Lake Como place
also: the lake
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The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had…
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To begin at the particularly dire moment for Wolfe, on April 26, 1945, less than two weeks before the end of the war, that morning, soon after arriving at the SS command post in a quaint town nestled in the foothills of the Italian Alps on …
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whose status had been reduced to that of Wolf's ward, was captured by partisans at a roadblock on the northern tip of Lake Como while fleeing with his dwindling entourage for Switzerland. Taken to a crumbling but still grand city hall nearb…
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a man well known to the Italian resistance fighters in the border area by his nickname, Scotty. Gavernich thought that Scotty, a man who risked his life each day fighting SS soldiers, would balk at the idea of saving the general who command…
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proceeded to the lake. Partisans opened fire on the cars. Scotty bravely jumped out of one of the vehicles, stood in the headlights, praying that the resistance soldiers would recognize him and stop shooting. Fortunately, they did. There wa…
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of Mussolini's capture and other dramatic bulletins from Lake Como. Gavernich kept expecting to hear news of General Wolfe's rescue by a U.S.-led team of commandos. He was determined that his boss' name be kept out of the story. It would ha…
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that he might have to spend some time behind bars to deflect any criticism of preferential treatment. But Wolf enjoyed VIP treatment, receiving better food than the rest of the prisoners, and even allowed to wear his full uniform and a gun.…
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According to a highly embarrassing article that ran in the New York Herald Tribune, Wolfe enjoyed a pleasant summer by the lake with his family. That summer was the period of greatest jeopardy for Wolfe as the Nuremberg prosecutors selected…