Antonio Basso
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Antonio Basso (Naples, 27 June 1881 – Rome, 2 October 1958) was an Italian general during World War II.
Biography
Early life and career
Basso attended the military college of Naples from 1892 to 1897 and then the Military Academy of Modena, graduating as second lieutenant in 1900.
From 1902 to 1911 he served as
Basso then became office head at the artillery command of Naples in 1919, and from 1919 to 1926 he served as Head of office at the Palermo Artillery Command (XII Army Corps) and group commander at the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment. From 1927 to 1931 he commanded the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment in Pesaro and from 1932 to 1935 the artillery of the 2nd Army Corps of Alessandria.
In June 1935, Basso became brigadier general and in 1936 he was appointed commander of the Royal School of Application of the Artillery and Engineers Branches, until 1938. In April 1938 he was promoted to major general and assigned to the Ministry of War, as general director of artillery, until 1940.[1][2]
World War II
From 6 November 1940, having been promoted to lieutenant general, he was appointed commander of the XIII Army Corps in Sardinia, with headquarters in Cagliari, where he worked to improve coastal defenses.
In May 1943 he was promoted to full
When the
In Turin, where Basso's family lived, his two daughters were imprisoned by the Germans at the end of 1943, while his son-in-law was deported to Germany. From 1 November 1943 Basso was transferred by the Italian Co-belligerent Army to Naples, as commander of the Campania Military Region, but in October 1944 he was dismissed and arrested under charges of failure to execute orders, due to his behavior in Sardinia in September 1943. In June 1946, after the war ended, he was judged before the Territorial Military Court of Rome for the crime of failure to carry out an assignment (Article 100 of the Military Criminal Code of War) "... for not having carried out orders for operations, without justified reason". He was acquitted after nearly two years of imprisonment on the following 28 June.[6][7]
Postwar
Basso was transferred to the reserve on 29 June 1946 and discharged on 27 June 1954. In 1947 he published a book about the events following the Armistice in Sardinia, L'armistizio del Settembre 1943 in Sardegna. He ran as a candidate for the Nationalist Movement for Social Democracy at the 1948 Italian general election in Cagliari, but was not elected.[8]
He died in Rome in 1958.
References
- ^ "Comando per la Formazione e Scuola di Applicazione I Comandanti". April 2, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-04-02.
- ^ "Biography of Lieutenant-General Antonio Basso (1881 – 1958), Italy". generals.dk.
- ^ a b "Protagonisti". Archived from the original on 2016-03-30. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
- ^ Eddy Bauer, Storia controversa della seconda guerra mondiale, vol. V, p. 222
- ^ "Rai Storia".
- ^ "Studi storici Anapoli - Dettaglio ente". June 29, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-29.
- ^ "Sardegna settembre 1943. La resistenza mancata *". iconur.
- ^ "Dopo l'armistizio il generale Basso risparmiò ai Sardi lutti e sofferenze (Angelo Abis)". August 1, 2018.