Miss Italy Blasted For Admitting She Wants To Live Through WWII
The newly-crowned Miss Italy may have won the annual beauty contest but she has been ridiculed for telling the contest judges that she would have liked to have lived through the Second World War.
Alice Sabatani was asked what historical period she would have liked to have experienced during the live television contest.
The 18-year-old drew gasps when she told them that she wished she was alive in 1942 - during the height of World War II and the reign of Italy’s dictator, Mussolini.
Explaining her answer, Miss Sabatini said that being a woman meant that she would not have had to fight.
She said: “Well… to see really what the Second World War was like, since the books talk about it for page after page.
“I… I want to live it. In any case I am a woman so I wouldn’t have had to do military service, so I would have been at home with the fear of…”
She began to laugh before finishing her sentence - but not before those watching laughed themselves and blasted her for her odd choice.
Italy was an ally of Germany in 1942 and Nazis began executing thousands of Jewish prisoners at concentration camps around this time.
Thousands of Italian lives were also lost in that year during the Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Stalingrad.
Memes began popping up on Twitter ridiculing Miss Sabatini, including one photoshop of her posing with Hitler and Mussolini.
Despite being criticised, she went on to win the contest and was crowned Miss Italia 2015.
She later defended her answer, admitting she was “nervous” when she answered the question but wanted to honour her grandmother’s experience of WWII.
The beauty queen told Urban Post: “I would have liked to live through what she had gone through in those years. For better and for worse.”
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