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According to Dov Levitan, the basic facts of the Mortara case are far from unique, but it is of particular importance nevertheless, because of its effect on public opinion in Italy, Britain and France, and as an example of "the great sense of Jewish solidarity that emerged in the latter half of the 19th century [as] Jews rose to the cause of ...
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.
This measure was implemented by the legislative decree 22/48 of January 22, 1948 (provision of coordination as a consequence of the abolishment of capital punishment). Thus, the death penalty remained in force in Italy in cases covered by the military penal code for wartime (though no execution ever took place) until law 589/94 of October 13 ...
Communist partisans executed 17 members of the Catholic partisan brigade Brigata Osoppo. Salussola massacre: 9 March 1945 Salussola: 20 (1 wounded) Blackshirts: 20 Italian partisans tortured and executed by Fascist Blackshirts [80] Rovetta massacre: 28 April 1945 Salussola: 43 Italian partisans
Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477), German cross dressing lesbian executed for heresy against nature after having used a dildo on two female partners. John Atherton (1640), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore [1] Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian [2] Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar. [3]
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).
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
Giacomo was first tortured with red-hot tongs, then struck to death with a mace (executed by mazzatello), and finally quartered. The sensational murder trial and the events leading up to it sent shockwaves across Europe and deeply affected the people of Rome, who protested against the papal tribunal's decision.