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The Lake Maggiore massacres was a set of World War II war crimes that took place near Lake Maggiore, Italy in September and October 1943.Despite strict orders not to commit any violence against civilians in the aftermath of the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, members of the SS Division Leibstandarte murdered 56 Jews, predominantly Italian and Greek.
It is estimated that about 10,000 Italian Jews were deported to concentration and death camps, of whom 7,700 perished in the Holocaust, out of a pre-war Jewish population that amounted to 58,500 (46,500 by Jewish religion and 12,000 converted or non-Jewish sons of mixed marriages).
A series of polls since 2010 found that support for the death penalty has been growing. from 25% in 2010, 35% in 2017 and In 2020, 43% of Italians expressed support for the death penalty. [12] [13] [14] A February 2024 poll has found that 31% of Italians support the death penalty. [15]
Christians kill 360 Jews in Modica's La Giudecca: Otranto massacre: 11 August 1480 ... this was the last time the death penalty was applied in Italy Republic of Italy ...
Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz. Fritz Duschinsky [8] February 26, 1907: December 1, 1942: 35 Jewish Czechoslovak physicist
The short period of Nazi Germany ruling Italy from September 1943 to April 1945 left major traces of blood and sorrow. The major victims groups in Liguria were resistance fighters, people of Jewish origin and military personnel that did not adhere to the German controlled Italian Social Republic
The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of ...
Rocco code was an Italian list of crimes which were punishable with the death penalty, it was introduced in 1930 and was put in force on July 1, 1931, during the Italian Empire. It also reintroduced capital punishment for more common crimes.