page_title: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi
section_title: World War Two Years
hierarchical_section_title: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi / World War Two Years
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch by Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi (EGT) showing the capture of German troops by Italian partisans in the Alps in 1944. A Jewish architect from Turin, originally, EGT was a member of the Italian partisans during WW2.
context_page_description: Eugenio Gentili Tedeschi was an Italian architect, designer, teacher and writer active in Italian building and product design from the 1940s until his death in 2005. Through his popular lectures while professor of design at Milan Politecnico and through his numerous books, he influenced many of the designers and architects working in Italy and abroad today. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation have recognized Gentili for his actions in the Italian Resistance in the Val d'Aosta during World War 2. His architectural legacy in the form of buildings can be seen in Milan and elsewhere in Italy today.
context_section_description: Gentili took part in the Italian resistance movement and fought alongside the Partisans in the Aosta Valley (in northwestern Italy at the border with France). He was denounced in June 1944, arrested and imprisoned in Turin. He was released in a matter of weeks, after Gentili's father and girlfriend were able to raise the 30,000 lire needed to bribe the police superintendent in Turin to turn him free. In the winter of 1944/45 he managed to elude the Nazi roundups and crossed the Alps into France to safety. In early 1945, he returned to Italy with the Allied forces, going first to Rome. His sketches from that period chronicle different aspects of the partisans' operations.
caption: Tedeschi sketch of partisan capture of German troops on the Alps, 1944.
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