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After Beri-Beri, Leyers spent a few years singing in theaters. In 1986, he met singer Paul Michiels in a café in Heist-op-den-Berg . Together, they recorded a single, "You Get to Me," which impressed Guy Brulez , an executive for EMI in Belgium.
- A Young Man from Milan
- Smuggling Refugees Through The Alps
- “The Observer”
- From Observation to Action
If you had to pick a time to be a teenager in Milan, 1943 would have been the worst of choices. In June, as my dad was nearing his 17thbirthday, the British began an intensive six-month bombing campaign. It left a third of the city’s population homeless (about 400,000). My father and his younger brother (my Uncle Mimmo) narrowly escaped death one n...
It was then that many Italians rebelled and began hiding and protecting their Jewish-Italian friends. They formed an “Underground Railroad,” a network of escape routes similar to the one that was developed to save American slaves before and during America’s Civil War. One of the network’s routes went through Casa Alpina, where the Lella brothers we...
Through a series of extraordinary circumstances, including his wounding during an Allied bombing raid, my father was ordered back to Milan to convalesce for two weeks. Then, with a little help from family and the abilities to speak French and drive a car, he landed a position as the personal driver and confidant for one of Hitler’s most mysterious ...
At midnight on April 24th, 1945, upon orders from the Resistance, my father single-handedly arrested General Hans Leyers and delivered him to the American Command, led by 5th U.S. Army Major Frank Knebel. For the next five days, he became Major Knebel’s personal guide and translator, at last discarding his uniform and the Nazi swastika. My father w...
May 11, 2017 · I’ve a report written by Leyers from summer 1945 (requested by chief historian at EUCOM/Caserta, and testimony from Nuernberg/Nuremberg after Leyers was released and he went back to Düsseldorf, ultimately testified for defense for one of the Krupps trial defendants (Erich Müller).
Feb 22, 2018 · During the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, beriberi killed 27,000 soldiers, compared to 47,000 men killed by actual war wounds. Finally, barley became a vital battlefield ration.
Jan 26, 2019 · Sullivan says Leyers was “so devastatingly good at burning his way out of history” that there are no records left testifying to his role in perpetrating war crimes against Italians and the Allies. How does this happen? One clue is a lesson Leyers teaches Pino about doing favors for people as a means of survival.
Soulsister is often designated as SoulSister, the Soul Sisters or Leyers, Michiels and SoulSister. [3] Leyers had previous experience in the rock group Beri-Beri, while Michiels had experience in the British rock group Octopus and as a solo artist. [2]
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But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
