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Jump to: navigation, search. Giuseppe „Pino“ Lella (* June 1 1926 in Milano) is an Italian motorist and contemporary witness of the final phase of World War II. He was the driver of General Hans Leyers and at the same time spy for the Alliance.
May 3, 2018 · Mussolini would ultimately drag the country into the Second World War on the side of Germany’s Adolf Hitler. My father is now 92 and lives an hour north of Milan, and his name is Pino Lella. His last two years as a teenager are inseparable from the war and the fall of Fascism.
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Oct 14, 2021 · World War II resistance fighter Giuseppe Lella. A spy for the Allies and a participant in the underground railroad that protected Italy’s Jews during World War II, Giuseppe “Pino” Lella considered himself a coward until an American author persuaded him to share his story with the world.
Tuesday August 29 2017, 12.01am, The Times. Hitler Youth recruits in Rome. The life of Pino Lella, who smuggled Jews out of Italy after joining the underground aged 17, is to be made into a...
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Mar 31, 2018 · Lella hated the Nazis with a fury, but reluctantly agreed, so in 1944 he joined the German army. His facility with languages — including French, English, some German and his native Italian — caught the attention of General Leyers, who was Hitler’s right-hand man in Italy, and soon Lella found himself as the Reich general’s personal driver.
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May 3, 2018 · Pino Lella: The Hero from "Beneath a Scarlet Sky". →. May 3, 2018. From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018. Pino, who turned 92 in June 2018, is the subject of the terrific bestseller by Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky. His son Michael tells the story here.
Jun 13, 2018 · Sullivan lives in Bozeman and was astounded by Pino’s story, and astonished to find that he was still alive, living in Italy after many years in the U.S. Reluctant at first, Lella agreed to be ...
