An Italian princess who lived in the most luxurious palaces and ended up in a Nazi concentration camp and that History almost erased from its annals: Mafalda of Savoy.
Weimar, 1945. Shortly after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, seven men from the Regia Marina Italiana enter the city cemetery and make their way to a sordid esplanade covered with numbered stakes. Once there, they stand in front of the one that took so much work and luck to find: number 262, where, according to the register, the remains of an unbekannte Frau (‘unknown woman’) lie. When they take it out, they see the first name that has been hidden until then and which confirms to them the great value of their mission. Finally, they replace it with a tombstone and a cross made of beech wood obtained by barter in those first days of peace. The tomb was now complete and that sinister number had become a carefully carved, highborn name: Mafalda of Savoy.
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