Empty human shells

The Rovereto History Workshop, the Clochart Association, the Social Cooperative La Rete, in collaboration with ANPI Rovereto-Vallagarina, propose to secondary and high schools and to citizens the theatrical story of one of the most dramatic and cruel (and even forgotten) episodes of the history of the twentieth century in Trentino. We are talking about the deportation to Germany of 299 German-speaking men and women hospitalized in the regional mental hospital of Pergine in May 1940.

That was an operation agreed between the German and Italian authorities which provided for the elimination by euthanasia of the mentally ill and the disabled considered "worthless lives", "empty human shells". This episode is reconstructed on the basis of a script prepared by the Rovereto History Laboratory and through the scenic action of a company of normo-actors and "un"-actors with the background of an iconographic and sound apparatus of great impact.