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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.
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.
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 ().
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
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 ...
The Allied 15th Army Group (General Sir Harold Alexander), captured Rome on 4 June 1944 and forced Army Group C, the German 14th Army and 10th Army, to withdraw towards northern Italy. [12] The Allied success was followed by orders for the invasion of southern France, Operation Dragoon , the majority of the troops for the landings being found ...
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-6289-2. Blaxland, Gregory (1979). Alexander's Generals (the Italian Campaign 1944–1945). London: William Kimber. ISBN 0-7183-0386-5. Bloch, Herbert (1979). The bombardment of Monte Cassino (February 14–16, 1944): A new appraisal. Tipografia ...
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 ...