Dall’esperienza alla memoria. La formazione e la conservazione del carteggio dell’Arma dei Carabinieri riferito al primo conflitto mondiale

Abstract

The documentary collection of the Carabinieri related to WW1 can be divided into some main categories, such as the correspondence of the Mobilisation Office of the Carabinieri
General Headquarters, the reports of the Carabinieri Commanders deployed alongside the Army Commands at the frontline and the Military Historical Diaries compiled by the mobilised units, plus a photographic documentation and personal archives. The individuation of the subjects who produced those documents is of the highest importance for a proper understanding of this collection, which has been housed in the Historical Archive of the Carabinieri Historical Museum, at the end of the 1930s. The reconstitution – albeit virtual – of the original arrangement of this peculiar documentary heritage represents the starting point of a project aimed at the creation of a digital archive, consultable online, which will make it possible to appreciate the Carabinieri in its entirety and therefore in its identity values.