The Last Teacher

Acknowledgements To my wife, an angel descended from heaven to teach me the true values of life, and allow me to tell them to everyone by taking care of me. To the volunteers of ANED, the former deportees of the Nazi concentration camps, who despite their age still find the courage to return with school trips to the sites of the atrocities they suffered, to witness them to young people and banish them forever from civil society. To Antonio Triolo, the 'Captain', for the valuable information on the hierarchies and tasks of the Force, and on the operational methods of the 'Gazelle' emergency patrols. To Carlo Bertocchi, known to his friends as Carlone, for revealing to me all the secrets about regulating valley waters and the regulations governing their use for hunting To all Giovanni Battista who pay dearly for their loyalty to their principles against the corrupt regime of forced consent, for this is the forced suicide of thought and the death sentence of freedom.