I 1914 both was both Trentino - province the Peio beam - and neighboring country South Tyrol, Habsburg domains. The newly established Italy was eager to make sinew borders permanent and then on the two provinces and Trieste, as «not redeemed country« and mwith a view to To recover the went Italy into the the wars on the alliess since i May 1915. The conflicts rest already on the western and eastern fronts and now opened a third up. The ranged from the julish Alps, which Italy Now sharing with Slovenia in the east to Ortler massif near the Swiss border further west - approximately 400 km.
Because a lot of the front was located on altitudes more than 2000 m.a.s.l., had to and new form for war development. The Italians already had their specialized mountainsoldiers (with the famous feathered caps), but Austrians had to make corresponding: Die Imperial Riflemen. These were supported by artillery and engineers who engineered a whole infrastructure for the wars up in the heights, including ditches cut out of the ice and rudimentary cable car for to transport men and ammunition to the peaks.
In the years that followed warmed world up, bream has begun å step back and Now reveals. remnants of the white the wars. From 1990s began matters and things å «flomme» out of the mountains and these was remarkably well preserved. The included among others. a love letter Addressed to Maria and never sent, and an ode to in loops, ‘friend of my long days‘, scribbled on and side of an Austrian soldierdiary.
More than 80 soldiers which fell in The white The war is come to light in recent decades, often mummified. The two soldiers which was buried in September last year was blonde, blue-eyed Austrians aged 17 and 18 year old, the died on Presenabream and lead buried by sinew comrades i and sermon. Both had bullet hole i skulls. A had still a spoon hidden in clothes - and common practice among soldiers who traveled from ditch to ditch and ate out of the same bowl.
For both sides of the front was the worst foe Weather, which killed more men than The games. On heights like these can temperatures fall to -30C and the «whites dead» - death pus avalanches - required thousands of life.
The people of Peio lived with in the stories of the soldiers because unlike the inhabitants of others front linevillages, they remained. «Emperors decided that This village not should evacuated» says Angelo Dalpez, Peios Mayor. «Sto the highest village i realm was debt symbolic - a message to the rest.» Citizens job up in the mountains as local guides for the soldiers, they were carriers and suppliers of matt, de took care of the casualty, buried the dead, and witnessed the change of their ancestors landscape (peeling lowered top of a mountain, San Matteo, with 6 meters).
I 1919-Treaty of Saint-Germain-and-Laye was Italy allocated Trentino. There was reportedly never any clash or revolution, but one hero calm transition. People in this mountain border region always had felt autonomous and Under the new scheme has The Italian government provided the a certain degree of independence. The has still with to drink (Italian) grappa, eating (German) dumpling and speaks Italian, but the forgotten never its history. Many of their relatives had fought on the habsburg since and when the soldiers began to melt out of the ice then of on them as their Grandparents, fathers or great-grandfathers.
