The Doctor Who Put Casts on Healthy Arms and Legs to Prevent Young Men from Being Recruited

During World War Two, while armies clashed and cities burned, one Italian doctor made a choice that would haunt him forever: he deliberately broke healthy young men's arms and legs to save them from certain death. This isn't a story you'll find in history books. This is the buried truth about a physician who violated his sacred oath, committed medical fraud on a massive scale, and became a criminal in the eyes of the fascist regime—all to prevent boys barely old enough to shave from being fed into the meat grinder of Mussolini's collapsing war machine. What he did was illegal, dangerous, and morally complex. But the question remains: was he a hero or a traitor?

Northern Italy, nineteen forty-three. The Nazi occupation tightens its grip. Conscription quotas rise as defeat looms closer. Desperate families arrive at a small-town clinic after midnight, begging for the one thing that can save their sons from the Eastern Front: a medical exemption. The doctor knows that every fake cast he applies, every forged diagnosis he signs, brings him one step closer to torture and execution. Yet he cannot stop. This is the untold story of the physician who turned his healing hands into instruments of calculated deception, who saved dozens of young lives by strategically destroying healthy bodies, and who paid a terrible price when his secret was finally exposed.

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