Figure 1.--We note a photograph of a school in Fidenza, a little town about 100 km east of Bologna. We do not know the name of the school, but Fidenza is not a big city, so perhaps an Italian reader might know. The background suggests it was a fairly, substantial school. The children are of primary age, but this is far too many for a single class. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the group.

We note a photograph of a school in Fidenza, a little town about 100 km east of Bologna. We do not know the name of the school, but Fidenza is not a big city, so perhaps an Italian reader might know. The background suggests it was a fairly, substantial school. The children are of primary age, but this is far too many for a single class. And we notice that several teachers are pictured with the children. Perhaps two or three classes are seen here. There are age differences here (suggesting different classes), but the age differences are not what you woukd expect from a complete primary school. Strangely while most of the children are boys, there are a few girls present. We are not sure what kind of school this was, but would guess it is a Caholic colegio, meaning a school with both primary and secondary sections. Here we probably see just some of the younger children. There was no uniform at the school. The photograph was taken in 1946. Interesting about half the boys are Boy Scouts. The Fascists in the 1920s banned Scouting and created their own youth organization--the Balilla. Here after the war and the end of Fascism we see Scouting up an running again. Unlike the occupied countries of Europe, mosdt Italian boys had no memory of Scouting. Perhaps this is photograph of the Scouters at the school and not all the boys wore their uniforms. This might explain hy only a few girls are in the photograph. Note there is only one Cub in the group. An Italian reader suggests that this may be vecause durfing the Fascist era, while there was sdome sureptitious Scouting, there was no Cubbing. It would have been very difficult for the younger boys to keep their participation secret. Thus so soon after the war, it may have been more difficult reviving the Cub program and obtaining Cub uniforms. That is also a little surprising given the age range of the boys. Notice that most of the boys wear suit jackets, although we do not see ties.

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