Chapter 23
In the early months of 1944, Vittorio d'Aiazzo's parents had returned to the city. First the mother, at the end of February: since the bombings on Naples had now ceased, her unlicensed son had gone to the farmhouse where she had been evacuated in a rental car with driver and had taken her home. His father, who had followed his king to Salerno, where the sovereign had transferred throne and capital, the following day April 22, 1944 when the second Badoglio Government had been established, through the hierarchy he had contacted the new Minister of the Interior, Salvatore Aldisio, who was in charge of the Carabinieri.138 When he met him days later, he had asked for and been granted permission to resume service in Naples. He had turned up at the family home late one evening, unexpe
