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Nota d'ambito

See also: mass executions and Ardeatine Caves. (en-US)

Definizione

On March 24, 1944, an SS detachment led by Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler executed 335 Italian men and boys, about 78 of them Jewish, in the Ardeantine Caves along the Appian Way outside Rome. The prisoners were shot in retaliation for an attack by the local GAP resistance unit on a group of SS on the Via Rasella in Rome on March 23, resulting in the deaths of 33 Germans. The Ardeatine Massacre became a symbol for Nazi brutality in Italy. (en-US)

Fonte

Wilhelm, Maria de Blasio. The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988. pp. 101-103

Termini più generici

• esecuzioni di massa