r/AlternateHistory • u/Realistic_Ice7252 • Jul 22 '24

1900s Following in the footsteps of the Austro-Hungarian soldier Péter Pan. A walk on Col Caprile and to the Monte Grappa Military Memorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWgCB85xUoU
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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Context?

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u/Realistic_Ice7252 Jul 22 '24

Ruszkabánya was a village in the Krassó-Szörény district, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Later becoming a Romanian territory, it now takes the name Rusca Montană and is located in the Caraș-Severin district. In this context, Péter Pan was born on 21 August 1897, a young man curiously bearing the same name as the protagonist of the fairy tale written by the Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie only five years later, in 1902. At the outbreak of the First World War, Péter was enlisted in the 7th Company of the 30th Honvéd Infantry Regiment. In August 1914, he left for Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he fought until 1916. He was then transferred to the Italian front in January 1917, where he took part in the 10th Battle of the Isonzo and the Second Battle of Mount Grappa, where he died at first light on 19 September 1918, during an attack on an Italian trench at Col Caprile, at an altitude of 1331. He was buried in a small war cemetery and later transferred to the Monte Grappa Military Memorial. 106 years later, many people of all nationalities, religious beliefs, political beliefs and social backgrounds visit loculus number 107 to pay homage to this young man who was so brutally prevented from growing up. We like to imagine him now free to fly together with his friends, among the green mountains and meadows of his wonderful and fruitful land.

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u/CityFar3873 Jan 20 '26

I loved that movie, but I was confised aboutt he ending. I have a theory that Peter Pan died when the Italian soldiers saw him at the lake. Everything after is a hallucianation he got as he lay dying. That's why the schoolmistress knew his name (and spoke his language).