To the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territory (AMGOT), grappling with its first job in Sicily, everything seemed to go fine. Most of the island’s 4,000,000 people were “cooperating ...
A U.S. mechanic stepped from a transport plane at a captured Sicilian airdrome, shouted to the others in his unit: “If you see any natives, just say ‘Come state?’ and they’ll say ‘Bene, Bene.’ ” His ...
The Amgot, Allied Military Government, issued an order to the municipalities in Sicily to submit a list of “Aryanized” Jewish property together with the names of the present owners, as well as of the ...