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For more information on the historical circumstances in which Oreste Maina’s diary was written, we recommend the following links.

• Online Resources about Italian Deportees :

  • 8744. A documentary.
    A German teacher and his students meet with Italian deportation survivors
  • Deportation Records Foundation
    Research and documentation on the Italian Resistance and Deportation to Nazi lagers
  • Documentazione presso gli Archivi di Stato
    Contains a partial list of Italians deported for forced labor (In Italian)
  • Schiavi di Hitler
    Historic documentation as part of a campaign to compensate Italians who were taken to Nazi Germany as forced laborers (In Italian)

• Other war diaries:

  • Soldier’s Mail
    Letters home from a New England soldier 1916-1919
  • War Diaries
    An archive of online war diaries
  • WW1: Experiences of an English Soldier
    An English soldier’s letters from the First World War