No Crash, but 500 Dead: The Balvano Train Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

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  @FascinatingHorror · 1 year ago · pinned

  If you&apos;re interested in learning a bit more about the history of Italy after the war, I&apos;d recommend my video on the Ponte Morandi bridge collapse: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUrYmpwzJI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnUrYmpwzJI</a>

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  @jackie0604oxon · 2 years ago

  I never knew how much Italians suffered during the war until I stayed with a family in the 1980s... we roasted chestnuts from the local forests and the mother said that they reminded her of the war, as she would come home from school in the autumn and all there was to eat was locally-harvested chestnuts.

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  @bertilliozephyrsgate6196 · 2 years ago

  The deadliest rail accidents seem to happen in wartime. &nbsp; On top of the deliberate killing, wartime is such a fertile field for unintentional accidents.

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  @TheMountyPresents · 2 years ago

  Bit of extra info: One of the survivor&apos;s hair turned completely gray due to the poisoning. Another was deemed mentally incompetent due to the severity of the poisoning. A relative of two of the victims erected a memorial in Belvano and one newspaper printed about the disaster but it was moreso a blurb due to the war

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  @reachandler3655 · 2 years ago

  How many children or siblings waited for a loved one to return with food? Such a tragedy.

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  @antonella2375 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve written three books about this tragedy. Some of the photos used are from them. More than 600 people died. And still many reports on the accident are uncorrect. I&apos;m glad all you english speaking people have known this tragedy and are touched by that. It&apos;s 20 years that I fight for its knowledge

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  @runecockthotguard · 2 years ago

  I almost fell victim to carbon monoxide poisoning. It was late at night and I was so tired from work that I was passing out on the couch with the cat curled up next to me. Suddenly, I hear a knock and investigate. To my surprise two officers are standing there warning me about the building being full of the deadly air. Our neighbor had a sensor that alerted them, but apparently we were in a more dangerous spot. A bird had built it&apos;s nest in our buildings exhaust and blocked the outward flow.<br>Emergency personal estimated we wouldn&apos;t have survived the night.<br>It&apos;s the silent killers that are the most terrifying.

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  @rickponsetto3443 · 2 years ago

  Grandma was born in Sienna, and emigrated as a teen during WW1. She left family, friends, neighbors, shopkeepers, parish members, priests and nuns. She kept in contact with some right up to the beginning of WW2. She went to her grave believing somebody she knew had to have survived and would contact her. Nobody did. There was no record of any name she could think of after 1943.

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  @FinnishLapphund · 2 years ago

  It feels extra tragic that things could&apos;ve ended differently, if it only hadn&apos;t been for the detail that the front train crew couldn&apos;t communicate with their back end train crew.

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  @classicmicroscopy9398 · 2 years ago

  What an absolute tragedy. Just goes to show how far-reaching the consequences of war can be.

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  @andreagriffiths3512 · 2 years ago

  Small mercy for the people asleep - they never knew about it 😔

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  @dinascharnhorst6590 · 2 years ago

  Children at home, waiting for a parent who will never return, not knowing what had happened to them...possibly never learning at all due to the censorship. Possibly starving further as a result. That is the real tragedy.

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