During WWII Gino was active with the Italian resistance movement building radios for the partisans. He was arrested, imprisoned, and ended up in the concentration camp in Bolzano, on his way to Dachau.

This is the story of how his technical knowledge avoided him the otherwise fatal leg of the trip, how the German commander of the camp wanted him to build a radio to illegally receive Radio London, and how he was finally liberated by the arrival of the American tanks in Bolzano.