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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 ...
It was to be a lengthy and bloody war of attrition north of Rome over the next ten months. The slaughter in the Ardeatine Caves marked only the beginning of fanatical retribution perpetrated by German military and Nazi security personnel.
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.
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.
On 23 March 1944, a group of partisans killed 33 Nazi soldiers and wounded 38 in war action in Via Rasella in Rome. For each German soldier killed, ten Italians would be slaughtered. That was the Nazi response.
The massacre was a reprisal for a partisan attack in central Rome on March 23, 1944, that left 33 German policemen dead. The very next day, the Nazi command in the occupied city ordered that 10...
In total, a quarter of the Jewish population of Rome—over 2,000 people—was deported, of which only 102 survived the Holocaust. Additionally, another 75 Roman Jews were murdered in the Ardeatine massacre, when 335 civilians were executed as a reprisal for a bombing attack on SS soldiers.
