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Until 1944 the Italian government showed interest and preoccupation for the violence and gathered information about the victims. [5] By December 1948 there were 10,000 cases submitted to Italian authorities but funds were scarce because of war indemnities Italy had to pay to France and this issue was an obstacle on the restoration of diplomatic ...
16 March 1978 - 9 May 1978 Rome: 6 Red Brigades: 5 police officers killed instantly in Via Fani ambush Aldo Moro killed after two months [106] Via Schievano massacre 8 January 1980 Milan 3 Red Brigades: Red Brigades shoot and kill three police officers [107] [108] Ustica massacre: 27 June 1980 Tyrrhenian Sea near Ustica: 81 Unknown
On 19 July 1944, Adolf Hitler issued an order from his headquarters, Wolfsschanze, 150 km (93 mi) west of Stalag Luft VI, "concerning preparations for the defence of the Reich".
Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, A map of the Death March of Brandenburg. Todesmarsch Dachau: Death marches from Dachau, Kaufering, Mühldorf and Allach (in German) USHMM Photos page of Waakirchen and 522nd FA BN Nisei soldiers; Memorial to the Death March Victims: Chelm and Hrubieszow, Poland Archived 2013-08-01 at archive.today
The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine), was a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for the Via Rasella attack in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen the previous day.
Tiger Death March memorial at Andersonville National Historic Site. During the Korean War, in the winter of 1951, 200,000 South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers were forcibly marched by their commanders, and 50,000 to 90,000 soldiers starved to death or died of disease during the march or in the training camps. [48]
This is a list of notable massacres in the Italian Social Republic.German troops in Italy often massacred civilians in retaliation for partisan activity. [1]To a lesser extent, war crimes were committed by the National Republican Army (fascist Italian army), usually against Italian partisans, such as at the Salussola massacre, where 20 partisans were executed.
The Italian Civil War (Italian: Guerra civile italiana, pronounced [ˈɡwɛrra tʃiˈviːle itaˈljaːna]) was a civil war in the Kingdom of Italy fought during the Italian campaign of World War II between Italian fascists and Italian partisans (mostly politically organized in the National Liberation Committee) and, to a lesser extent, the Italian Co-belligerent Army.