Figure 1.-- We have this photo taken over a decade earlier than the photograph on the previous page, probably about 1948 at another primary school in Carbonia (Giovanni Pascoli). An Italian reader writes, "Some of the boys have come to school barefoot, and at that time it looked entirely normal and not t remarkable. Neither the children nor the teacher seem to see it as something that should be hidden."

Italy joined NAZI Germany in World War II in the hope of sharing in the NAZI loot (1940). The results were a disaster. Not only did Italain armies fail abroad, but he Allies invaded Italy (September 1943) and then fought the Germans all the way uo the peninuaa before surendrting in northern Italy (May 1945) leaving behind a landscape of disaster. Fortunately for the children there, there was very little fighting on Sardinia. Sardinia fared relatively well, but thre was some bombing because of the Axis airfields there. The Allies tried to midirect the Germans into believing there would be an invasion in 1943. After the Allied invasion of Italy, however the Germans withdrew. Recovery was just only beginning at the end of the decade. We have a photo here taken over a decade earlier (figure 1) than the photograph on the previous page, probably about 1948 at another primary school in Carbonia (Giovanni Pascoli). An Italian reader writes, "Some of the boys have come to school barefoot, and at that time it looked entirely normal and not t remarkable. Neither the children nor the teacher seem to see it as something that should be hidden." But unlike before the War many of the children have shoes. We are not sure why the photographer teacher has chossen the site here for her class portrit. It does not seem to be a Roman ruin.

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