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In the summer of 1944, after the Axis defeats at Cassino and Anzio, central Italy, including Rome, was liberated. Northern Italy was liberated following the final spring offensive and the general insurrection of Italian partisans on 25 April 1945. Mussolini was captured by the Italian resistance and summarily executed by firing squad.
The 11th-century Abbey of Monte Cassino, almost completely destroyed by Allied bombings in 1944, stands as a powerful symbol of the huge devastation Italy suffered during the war. Nearly four million Italians served in the Italian Army during the Second World War and nearly half a million Italians (including civilians) lost their lives between ...
A limited film production goes on North Italy. Vivere ancora , began by Leo Longanesi in Rome the last year, is completed in Turin by Francesco de Robertis . In Venice, the authorities of the Italian Social Republic try to establish a new Cinecittà , called Cinevillaggio but the studios realize only a dozen of movies, of poor artistic value.
Map of the attack. The attack was led by the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP) against the 11th company of the 3rd battalion of the SS-Polizeiregiment "Bozen" (Police Regiment "Bozen" from Bolzano [7]), a military unit of the German Ordnungspolizei ("Order Police") recruited in the largely ethnic-German Alto Adige region in north-east Italy, during the de facto German annexation of the region ().
The Foggia Airfield Complex was a series of World War II military airfields located within a 40 km (25 mi) radius of Foggia, in the Province of Foggia, Italy.The airfields were used by the United States Army Air Forces' Fifteenth Air Force as part of the strategic bombardment campaign against Nazi Germany in 1944 and 1945, as well as the Twelfth Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and the ...
Map of the Italian Social Republic (RSI). Its territory (marked in green) was the theatre of the Italian resistance. In grey are the territories of the Kingdom of Italy. Rodolfo Graziani estimated the partisan strength at around 70,000–80,000 by May 1944. [44]
B. Balvano train disaster; Operation Baobab; Battle of Anzio; Battle of Cisterna; Battle of Gemmano; Bernhardt Line; Bolzano Transit Camp; Bombing of Bologna in World War II
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