2020-05-23, Saturday
I've always been a distracted guy. Add to that the fact that I'm retired and isolated... ...well, the days are all the same.
And that explains why I've forgotten an important anniversary: 75 years ago my grandfather left Dachau to go home, after acting as interpreter for a War Crimes colonel in interrogating the SS who held the camp.
My granddad was from London, but he lived in Milan working for an Austrian company, Thonet, and
spoke 5 or 6 languages fluently, which saved his skin.
He had been arrested by the Gestapo while carrying a machine gun for the partisans: he looked very distinguished and they thought he was unsuspected. But a check outside a train station led to his capture.
You know I never asked him what he shaved with?
Sapone PS: Valobra Glicerolanolina
Sapone: Freelander, alla rosa
Pennello: Lab. Villefranche, Cucciolino Padouk/Silvertip 24
Rasoio: Maggard, MR 3
Lametta: Gillette, 7 O’Clock, Permasharp Stainless
AS 1: MilMil, Figaro Gel
AS 2: Geo.F.Trumper, Coral Skin Food
EdT: Antica Farmacia La Verna, alla Rosa
ST: Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue 1959