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Pino Lella. 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. In April 1945, he delivered Leyers to the Fifth United States Army and then became the driver of Major Frank ...
May 3, 2018 · My dad, the protagonist of author Mark Sullivan’s 2017 Amazon bestseller, Beneath a Scarlet Sky, was born in 1926. The voice and image of “Il Duce” (as Italians were obliged to call Mussolini) were ubiquitous in Italy at the time. 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 ...
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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.
Oct 14, 2021 · 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.
May 3, 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. From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018.
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 film after the book was a huge success. GETTY ...
Jan 26, 2019 · It is based on the true story of a great Italian guy, Pino Lella, who played a part in the Allies’ success in northern Italy. Pino, who is now about 90 years old is an unsung hero of World War 2. At seventeen years old, Pino and his little brother are sent to a Catholic boys camp in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland because ...
