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Massacre in Rome (Italian: Rappresaglia) is a 1973 Italian war drama film directed by George Pan Cosmatos about the Ardeatine massacre which occurred at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, 24 March 1944, committed by the Germans as a reprisal for a partisan attack against the SS Police Regiment Bozen.
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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 ...
Oct 24, 1973 · Massacre in Rome: Directed by George P. Cosmatos. With Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner. Rome, March 23, 1944: 33 German soldiers are killed by a bomb. Lt. Col. Herbert Kappler is ordered to execute ten times that many Italians.
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Mar 24, 2024 · The mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners was carried out in this cave area 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.
Learn how a Communist-led resistance group bombed a Nazi column in Rome in 1944, triggering a brutal reprisal by the SS. The article explores the context, the events, and the legacy of the Ardeatine Caves Massacre.
On the following day, March 24, 1944, personnel from the headquarters of the Security Police and SD in Rome, led by SS Captain Erich Priebke and SS Captain Karl Hass, assembled 335 Italian male civilians near a series of man-made caves on the outskirts of Rome on the Via Ardeatina.
Dec 9, 2022 · In 1944, Nazi troops killed 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves as revenge for a partisan attack. The only person convicted was the SS officer in charge, while the German and Italian governments covered up the crime.
