Barbed wire and mandolins, directed by Nicola Zavaglia
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Barbed wire and mandolins, directed by Nicola Zavaglia
Language
eng
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Main title
Barbed wire and mandolins
Medium
electronic resource
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714722901
Responsibility statement
directed by Nicola Zavaglia
Runtime
49
Summary
This short documentary introduces us to Italian-Canadians whose lives were disrupted and uprooted by seclusion in internment camps during the Second World War. On June 10, 1940, Italy entered WWII.
Overnight, the Canadian government came to see the country's 112,000 Italian-Canadians as a threat to its national security. The RCMP rounded up thousands of people it considered fascist sympathizers. Seven hundred of them were held for up to three years in internment camps, most of them at Petawawa, Ontario. None were ever charged with a criminal offence. Remarkably, the former internees are not bitter as they look back on the way their own country treated them
Target audience
adult
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