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Lo writer and playwright Stefano Massini he was insulted, yanked and pushed to the Book Fair in Turin where he was to present his new opera “Mein Kampf”. “He was a man of about 70 years old – he explained – who when I arrived stared at me and followed me as if he wanted to tell me something. He sat in the front row. During the meeting he began to rant at me in a low voice. he said ‘communist, you go to Fazio, you tell each other things without cross-examination, Hitler was not as you describe him'”. “The man – Massini continued – was removed but not stopped, also given his age”.
“The manager Einaudi, who was with me, went to call the security service but the insults continued at the copy signing, with phrases like ‘Hitler was right, you communists are rewriting history’. I replied: ‘We are in the city of Gobetti’ and some kids applauded my words.”