Talk:Dante Agostini (canoeist)

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War Crimes[edit]

I found a short article that said Agostini was sentenced for war crimes in absentia - the article itself is almost a month after the 1952 Olympics ended, so I guess they realised he wasn't coming back from Finland. However, I can't find anything else about this. I assume he was never found. Skycloud86 (talk) 21:02, 19 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I found a PDF that mentions Agostini, although it's in Italian - https://www.academia.edu/35603801/La_patria_di_riserva_Lemigrazione_fascista_in_Argentina. The two parts where he is mentioned are as follows -

"Il nodo dei margini di scelta tra partire e restare, che comunque si danno anche nelle situazioni in cui l’esodo è forzato, è critico soprattutto per i latitanti. Non tutti evidentemente emigrarono. Un episodio clamoroso come quello che occorre nell’agosto 1952, quando negli ultimi giorni di dibattimento al processo contro la «Tagliamento» in corso presso il tribunale militare di Milano «si scopre con un colpo di scena che il capo manipolo Dante Agostini ritenuto dall’accusa uno dei massacratori della legione fascista, che si pensava fosse uccel di bosco in Argentina, è invece partito con regolare passaporto a gareggiare per i colori italiani alle olimpiadi di Helsinki»121, deve reputarsi eccezionale ma induce a pensare che, almeno da un certo momento in avanti, persino i contumaci o i passibili di giudizio fossero poco attivamente (o assai maldestramente) ricercati, tanto da potersi permettere non solo di vivere in Italia senza essere importunati, ma anche di abbandonare ogni precauzione."

Using Google translate, it says that the military court thought he had fled to Argentina, but was actually taking part in the Olympics. I'm not sure why they claim that.

The second time he is mentioned is a footnote -

"Agostini fece pervenire una lettera al presidente del tribunale e non rientrò ovviamente in Italia. Nell’archivio del Mif (su cui infra), si conserva una raccomandazione della principessa Pignatelli indirizzata a Vagen Tramat a Malmö, in Svezia: «a nome del sig. Ulich Warange. Preghiamo di dare assistenza al Tenente Dante Agostini»."

Google translate says that he sent a letter to the president of the court and did not return to Italy.

Skycloud86 (talk) 22:04, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]