Aimone Canape (Dongo, July 25, 1922 - Dongo, August 15, 2016) was an Italian partisan. Biography modifies wikitesto
Aimone Canape was the last living witness of Mussolini's capture at Dongo in 1945. Only in February 2010 he decided to reveal his role, telling his own version of facts to journalist Marcello Foa, who collected testimonies of the partisan in the book The Boy of the Lake, edited by Edizioni Piemme.
Aimone Canape, class 1922, was the first partisan to deal with the Wehrmacht column officers, between Musso and Dongo. His story reveals the incredible coincidences of the fate that led to the end of the Duce, and in particular the role played by Dongo's children and Canape himself in inducing the German command.
The boy of the lake describes the version of Canape about the story of Benito Mussolini's capture. According to Canape, the Duce was treated with great respect by the partisans of Dongo, with a circumstance destined to argue: in Canape it is in fact that Mussolini did not pretend to be a drunken German soldier but to be on the ground with a carpone and that a German soldier he sat on him and covered him with his overcoat. It was discovered why his helmet fell.
According to other testimonies, Aimone Canape saved Marcello Petacci's wife and Fernando Mezzasoma's popular culture minister, who was shot at the Dongo Square. Links externalize the wikitesto
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