Analysis of the Sources collected

Articles from “Corriere della Sera” and “La Stampa”.
The newspapers used are probably the two most important ones at a national level, the first one issued in Milan and the second one in Turin. The first article is dated September 1st and the second one September 4th. Both papers emphasize with abundant details and exaggerated tones the incredible qualities of the German army and approve of its action. Reminding of the role played by Mussolini in Monaco of a peace keeper, the responsibilities of the war are given to London and Warsaw since they remained insensitive in regards to the question of the “polish corridor” and Gdansk.
Photos of German soldiers in an open space.
The image was taken from a web site and it represents some soldiers, hiding, getting ready to shoot the enemy, an enemy depicted as very dangerous and insidious. The image creates a contrast between the efficiency of the military forces on site and their surroundings such as trees without leaves and half falling and an abandoned shack (could this be possible on September 1st already?).
Photo of a damaged area of the railroad.
The image was taken from a web site. It depicts buildings that resemble a train station. The tracks and the wagons could have been bombarded. No humans are present.
Photo of German soldiers marching in a parade.
The image, also taken from a web site, shows a close shot of the soldiers stepping forward, in the background Hitler is in a central position greeting; to his side other exponents of the Nazi hierarchy.
Audiovisual Paper Luce Sept 27th, 1939.
The video, made by the Luce National Institute shows how the undefeatable German army first throws out the Polish people from their villages and then assists them, all the whilst in the “polish corridor” the army is acclaimed enthusiastically.
Oral sources: interview to Giovanna Speziali. The interview primarily underlines the feelings of fear awakened by the war for the destiny that awaits family members. The picture that comes out from this interview is one of a farming world castigated by the wars, isolated and lacking adequate information , only absorbed in hard work. The interviewee says that at the time she was on the side of Poland, not on the Germans’.
Oral source: interview to Maria Giulia Montesperelli. The interviewee, a 19-year-old student then, explains that at the time they thought the war was only to last two to three months and that all the way through the end of it in 1946 they completely ignored the existance of the concentration camps and of other barbaric episodes that the war brought upon.