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- The Marzabotto massacre, or more correctly, the massacre of Monte Sole, was a World War II war crime consisting of the mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Nazi troops, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna.
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The Marzabotto massacre, or more correctly, the massacre of Monte Sole, was a World War II war crime consisting of the mass murder of at least 770 civilians by Nazi troops, which took place in the territory around the small village of Marzabotto, in the mountainous area south of Bologna.
On 29 September 1944, German troops aided by a group of Fascists, began an encirclement maneuver, climbing to the top of Monte Sole, with the goal to defeat the partisans and punish the local population, accused of helping the ‘rebels’. The operation lasted seven days.
Commonly known as the massacre of Marzabotto (from the most affected municipality), it was carried out by Nazi-Fascist troops between September 29 and October 5, 1944, in the territory of Marzabotto, Grizzana Morandi and Monzuno, on the slopes of Monte Sole, in the province of Bologna.
Jul 15, 2015 · Andreas Schendel's uncle was convicted over a WW2 massacre by the SS in northern Italy. He decided to go there to meet survivors, Paul Kirby reports.
As partisan assaults increased, massacre became an organizing principle in the Third Reich’s war in Italy. Kesselring issued a decree on June 17 holding the general population responsible for acts of resistance.
Dec 20, 2012 · The Marzabotto massacre's backstory begins on September 8, 1943. When Italy broke off its alliance with Hitler's Germany, friends became foes - from one day to the next, German forces in the...
On September 29, 1944, during the World War II German occupation of Italy, the town was the site of the worst massacre of civilians committed by the Waffen SS in Italy. In reprisal of the local support given to the partisans and the resistance movement, soldiers of the SS-Panzer-Aufklärungsabteilung 16, killed systematically hundreds of ...
