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While sympathetic Sicilians look on,

Pvt. Roy Humphrey is given blood plasma

by medic Pfc. Harvey White

after being wounded

during the campaign

to oust occupying German forces.

 

Location: Sicily, Italy

 

Date taken: August 09, 1943

 

Photograph: Wever

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=870146bec67c3c68

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

German Gen. Anton Dostler is tied to a stak

before his execution by a firing squad

in the Aversa stockade.

 

The General was convicted and sentenced to death

by an American military tribunal. Aversa, Italy.

Blomgren, December 1, 1945.

111-SC-225295.

Pictures of World War II > Prisoners

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-171.jpg - broken link

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28 April 1945

 

Italian partisans kill Mussolini

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/28/
newsid_3564000/3564529.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 1944

 

Liberation of Rome

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/
world/europe/wartime-claim-to-fame-divides-2-italian-towns.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/
newsid_3547000/3547329.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This African-American combat patrol

advanced three miles north of Lucca

(furthermost point occupied by American troops)

to contact an enemy machine gun nest.

 

Here a bazooka-man cuts loose at the target some 300 yards distant

 

Date: 09/07/1944

 

Source: US Archiv ARCWEB ARC Identifier: 531216

 

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Luccaitaly1944.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pvt. Paul Oglesby, 30th Infantry,

standing in reverence before an altar

in a damaged Catholic Church.

 

Note: pews at left appear undamaged,

while bomb-shattered roof is strewn about the sanctuary.

Acerno, Italy.

Benson, September 23, 1943.

 

111-SC-188691.

Pictures of World War II > North Africa, Sicily, Italy

US National Archives

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-96.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/28/
newsid_3564000/3564529.stm

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
battle_cassino_01.shtml 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/25/
artsandhumanities.highereducation

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
mussolini_benito.shtml 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The fall of Italy

towards the end of the second world war

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/08/
italian-fascism-collapse-ww2
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erich Priebke    1913-2013

 

 

 

 

Erich Priebke, center, left his lawyer's office in 2007.

 

Photograph: Gregorio Borgia

Associated Press

 

Erich Priebke, Nazi Who Carried Out Massacre of 335 Italians, Dies at 100

NYT

Oct. 11, 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/
world/europe/erich-priebke-nazi-who-carried-out-italian-massacre-dies-at-100.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

former SS captain

who was sentenced to life in prison

for helping to organize

the execution of 335 men and boys

at the Ardeatine Caves

in Italy in 1944

 

(...)

 

Mr. Priebke fled to South America

soon after World War II

and had been living

under his real name,

owning a butcher shop

and traveling to Europe

— and even Italy —

with a German passport.

 

He was extradited to Italy in November 1995

and ordered to stand trial

before an Italian military tribunal the next year.

 

The proceedings — described at the time

as possibly the last Nazi

war-crimes trial in Europe —

centered on the massacre at the Ardeatine Caves,

just south of Rome, on March 24, 1944.

 

The men and boys were rounded up and killed

in reprisal for an attack in which Italian partisans

killed 33 members of a Nazi security force.

 

Herbert Kappler,

the Gestapo chief in Rome,

ordered the deaths of 10 Italians

for every dead policeman.

 

Seventy-five of the 335 victims

were Jewish.

 

By many accounts,

the captives were led into the caves

with their hands tied behind their backs,

forced to kneel

— many over the bodies

of those already killed —

and shot in the neck.

 

(...)

 

His commander at the time of the massacre,

Mr. Kappler, was sentenced

to life in prison in 1948 by a Rome court.

 

He was smuggled out

of a military hospital in 1997

and died in freedom

in Germany the next year.

 

Karl Hass, an SS major,

was convicted with Mr. Priebke in July 1997

and given a life sentence in 1998.

 

He died

while under house arrest in 2004.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/
world/europe/erich-priebke-nazi-who-carried-out-italian-massacre-dies-at-100.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/16/
erich-priebke-funeral-cancelled-nazi-italy
 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/15/
nazi-erich-priebke-hearse-kicked-protesters-italy

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/11/
nazi-erich-priebke-dies-100

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/
world/europe/erich-priebke-
nazi-who-carried-out-italian-massacre-dies-at-100.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24 March 1944

 

Rome

 

Ardentine caves massacre

 

Ardentine caves,

aka Grotto Via Ardeatina

 

 

The Nazis massacred

approx. 355 Italian civilians

in reprisal for a partisan bombing

that killed 32 SS troops

 

 

 

 

 

Humain remains in the Ardentine caves,

aka Grotto Via Ardeatina,

where Nazis massacred

approx. 355 Italian civilians

during WWII in reprisal

for a partisan bombing that killed 32 SS troops.

 

Location: Rome, Italy

 

Date taken: June 1944

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

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Two widows placing flowers

in the Ardentine caves, aka Grotto Via Ardeatina,

where the Nazis massacred approx. 355 Italian civilians

in reprisal for a partisan bombing that killed 32 SS troops.

 

Location: Rome, Italy

 

Date taken: June 1944

 

Photograph: Carl Mydans

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=767a6eb14adaa812

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6765127.stm

 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
ardeatine-caves-massacre

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/28/
german-war-criminal-100-rome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marocchinate

(pronounced [marokkiˈnate],

Italian for "Moroccans’ deeds")

is a term applied to the mass rape and killings

committed during World War II

after the Battle of Monte Cassino in Italy.

 

These were committed mainly

by the Moroccan Goumiers,

colonial troops of the French Expeditionary Corps (FEC),

commanded by General Alphonse Juin,

and mostly targeted civilian women and girls

(as well as a few men and boys)

in the rural area between Naples and Rome,

traditionally known in Italian as Ciociaria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Marocchinate

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Two_Women - 1960

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January, February, March and May 1944

 

Italian Campaign

 

Battle of Monte Cassino / Battle for Rome

 

 

The battle took four months,

and by one estimate

it left a quarter of a million

dead or wounded.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3487075.stm

 

 

 

 

 

Blasted ruins of the town,

with the destroyed monastery atop Monte Cassino in the background,

give mute testimony to the heavy bombardment & bitter struggle

of the Allies vs. the Germans for control of the town.

 

Location: Cassino, Italy

 

Date taken: May 19, 1944

 

Photograph: George Silk

 

Life Images

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3487075.stm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/
battle_cassino_01.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Battle_of_Monte_Cassino

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Marocchinate

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/
vatican-note-bombing-of-monte-cassino-hitler-allied-raid-neutral-zone

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/
opinion/cohen-from-death-into-life.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2008/oct/02/
secondworldwar.military

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/jun/21/
guardianobituaries.secondworldwar

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/arts/02iht-3kimm.7713570.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/04/
johnezard

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/1944/may/19/
mainsection.leadersandreply

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1944

 

 

 

 

Martin Adler in 1944

with the Naldi children, Bruno, Mafalda and Giuliana,

in the northern Italian village of Monterenzio.

 

Photograph: Matteo Incerti

via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

 

A Beloved World War II Photo Comes to Life in a Virtual Reunion

Martin Adler, now 96, was looking for German troops in 1944

when he almost shot three Italian children.

His daughter’s internet appeal

brought them all together again this month.

NYT

Published Dec. 26, 2020

Updated Dec. 27, 2020    3:59 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/
world/europe/Italy-World-War-II-American-soldier-reunion.html


 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/
world/europe/Italy-World-War-II-American-soldier-reunion.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolzano, Nazi concentration / transit  camp

in northern Italy

 

In October and November 1943,

German authorities rounded up Jews

in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Florence, Trieste,

and other major cities in northern Italy.

 

They established police transit camps

at Fossoli di Carpi,

approximately 12 miles north of Modena,

at Bolzano in northeastern Italy,

and at Borgo San Dalmazzo,

near the French border,

to concentrate the Jews

prior to deportation.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005455

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/
world/europe/09seifert.html
 

 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 September 1943

 

Allied troops invade mainland Italy

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/
newsid_3585000/3585719.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 1943

 

Western Allies invade Sicily

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/
newsid_3587000/3587283.stm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1943-1945

 

Italian campaign

 

The campaign started in July 1943,

when the troops invading Italian territory

became the first to liberate Nazi Europe,

and did not end until 1945.

 

However,

much of the mostcritical fighting

took place in May and June 1944,

leading up to the liberation of Rome,

on 5 June 1944 – the day before

the Normandy Landings.

 

(...)

 

Allied casualties in Italy

were more than 312,000

– considerably higher

than those in Normandy.

 

British casualties are thought

to have been more than 90,000,

during a gruelling advance northwards

through what Winston Churchill

called the "underbelly of Europe".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
newstopics/britainatwar/5299500/D-Day-dodgers-prepare-for-attention.html
- broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 1940

 

Italy Invades British Somaliland

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Italian_invasion_of_British_Somaliland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

22 May 1939

 

Italy and Germany

sign the Pact of Steel

to help each other

in the event of war

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zfhqy9q/revision/4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benito Mussolini    1883-1945

 

 

 

 

Time Covers - The 40S

TIME cover 06-09-1941

ill. of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

Date taken: June 09, 1941

 

Photograph: Ernest Hamlin Baker

 

Life Images

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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)

 

Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

 

Mussolini loses grip on Italy, archive 1943

26 July 1943: Mussolini has lost his grip on fascism and Italy:

his last interview with Hitler

G

Thu 26 Jul 2018    06.30 CEST

Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020    15.20 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/26/
mussolini-loses-grip-on-italy-archive-1943

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A huge likeness of Benito Mussolini

on the facade of the Palazzo Braschi in Rome in 1934.

 

Behind him, the word si (yes) is repeated,

reminding the population to approve the National Fascist party’s candidates

in the March general election, the last under fascist rule.

 

Photograph: Brandstaetter Images/Getty Images

 

Propaganda: 100 years of fear, manipulation and persuasion – in pictures

Drugs, war, apartheid and the environment are some of the themes

covered in the book Propagandopolis,

by Bradley Davies and published by FUEL,

which charts a century of efforts to influence and control

G

Tue 12 Nov 2024    10.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/12/
propaganda-100-years-of-fear-manipulation-and-persuasion-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/
benito-mussolini

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/dossier/international/
il-y-cent-ans-la-marche-sur-rome

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
mussolini_benito.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarcord - 1973

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/nov/12/
propaganda-100-years-of-fear-manipulation-and-persuasion-
in-pictures

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/
insider/mussolini-dead-picture.html

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/301022/
mussolini-au-pouvoir-anatomie-d-un-regime-fasciste

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/281022/
il-y-un-siecle-en-italie-les-fascistes-prenaient-le-pouvoir

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/21/
mussolinis-war-by-john-gooch-review-fascist-dreams-of-the-1930s-and-40s

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/mar/28/
woman-shot-mussolini-stonor-saunders

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/13/
benito-mussolini-recruited-mi5-italy

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/
world/europe/urbano-lazzaro-who-arrested-mussolini-is-dead-at-81.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/jun/25/
artsandhumanities.highereducation

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/1945/apr/03/
italy.thefarright

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/04/30/
archives/the-end-of-mussolini.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1945/04/30/
archives/slain-by-partisans-the-inglorious-end-of-a-dictator-italys-former.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/29/
opinion/IHT-1945mussolini-killed-in-our-pages100-75-and-50-years-ago.html

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/28/
newsid_3564000/3564529.stm - 28 April 1945

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/26/
mussolini-loses-grip-on-italy-archive-1943

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1936

 

Mussolini

 

'Ethiopia is Italian'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127067,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Italy's empire building

before the second world war

 

1936

 

Mussolini's conquest of Abyssinia

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/05/
italy-abyssinia-second-world-war 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127069,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 1936

 

Mussolini and Hitler recognise

the Government of General Franco

 

https://www.theguardian.com/century/1930-1939/
Story/0,,127033,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On 28 October 1922,

thousands of fascists

marched towards the Italian capital,

threatening to seize power.

 

The following day

the king asked Mussolini

to form a government

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/19/
march-on-rome-and-coming-to-power-of-mussolini-1922

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/19/
march-on-rome-and-coming-to-power-of-mussolini-1922

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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