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Forward In order to support the growth of a culture of peace and peaceful coexistence among peoples, with the aim of recalling and honoring the military and civilian victims of each division and nationality, the Sicilian Parliament (Sicilian Regional Assembly) with law no.5 on 20th March 2015 designated the Castle of Milazzo among the 28 "places of the memory of the Great War in Sicily". The choice of the Sicilian legislator was not casual, infact   the fortified citadel of Milazzo hosted during the First World War a prison camp of Austro-Hungarian officers and, a few years before, in the ancient Duomo,   military barracks of the Italian Army were settled next to the the Mastio which was used as a prison since the end of the nineteenth century. This exhibition intends to recall that prison camp and one of its detainees, Lieutenant Otto Jank, died in Milazzo. It also means to commemorate the contribution and sacrifice of the Milazzese people to the Great War. Espe...