POLICY OF SUPPRESSION
IN SOUTHERN TYROL ALL ITALIAN'S NOW! (Ausfc. end in. L. Cable'.. London, Mart.li 12. Tile Daily Express special corrcsdeiit in Tyrol says it is a strange fact that everyone who has died in Southern Tyrol since October 1927 hears an Italian name. This is due to the Ease st decree that all dead must be .buried under Italian names. In certain parishes they even have a. decree* that the graves of by-gore generations must hear Italian names. It is easy to see the humour cl such an order, hut it is a dillereut matter for children burying their lathers and mothers under strange outlandish names. Tradesmen, doctors, and lawyers' are compelled to erase their German Christian names and replace them with ltal.an ones.
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Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1353, 13 March 1928, Page 6
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