Aldo Vidussoni

Who was Aldo Vidussoni?

Aldo Vidussoni was an Italian lawyer and Fascist politician.

After law studies at the University of Trieste, Vidussoni joined the Partito Nazionale Fascista in May 1936. He was a volunteer soldier in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, and then on Francisco Franco's side in the Spanish Civil War; he lost an eye and an arm on the Santander front, and was awarded a gold medal for valor in combat. Aldo Vidussoni's reputation made him an asset with the Benito Mussolini régime, and he became an important figure in the hierarchy of the Fascist university corporations - the Gruppi universitari fascisti. First a secretary of the GUF for the Province of Trieste, he was inspector for the GUF in Enna, and, in November–December 1941, national secretary of the GUF.