The Total War, Exhibition, La Casa di Vetro, Milan: 15 February-27 June 2020

The exhibition, accompanied by in-depth texts for each image, tells the story of the most devastating conflict that man has ever known through the most suggestive, representative and famous photographs of the National Archives and Records Administration and of the Library of Congress, which in turn retain images from the collections of the US Navy, the US Marines Corp, the US Army and others.

Made up of about 60 images, the exhibition traces all the main events of the Second World War on the European, North African and Pacific fronts: Nazi expansionist policy and the fierce Japanese attack on China, the German invasion of France and the bombings on the Great Britain, the Japanese surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Russia, the war in North Africa and the reconquest of the Allies island by island in the Pacific Ocean, the extermination camps and the enslavement of millions of Europeans for replace the Germans in the factories at the front, the war in Italy and D-Day, the partisan movements and the punishments of the collaborators, the defeat of the Germans and the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the hunt for Nazi hierarchs and the surrender of Japan. At the same time, the exposition, in the introductory text, recounts the political climate that led to the tolerance of Nazifascism by Western democracies in an anti-Soviet function and invites reflection on why remembering the tragic events of the Second World War and on what ethical issues the Conflict has raised to which still today a definitive and / or univocal answer has not been given - starting, for example, from the limits that a democracy must set starting from the observation that Hitler has ascended to power also through free elections (however conditioned politically artfully by the Nazis themselves).

'The Total War' Exhibition

La Casa di Vetro, Via Luisa Sanfelice 3, Milan