#FascistCrimes

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luigi Ercoli died in inhuman conditions in Mauthausen #Otd 80 years ago.
Before transportation, the "white" (Christian) partisan was captured, deprived of food 17 days, tortured by SS Capt. #ErichPriebke in Brescia, but didn't speak.
#15gennaio #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Efisio Atzeni was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago in Genoa.
Born in Sardinia, he fought in the 3rd #GaribaldiDivision "Cichero", Brigade "Jori". He was shot in the head with other prisoners.
He died aged 19.
#14gennaio #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Dino Cevenini was murdered by the Nazi-Fascists #Otd 80 years ago near Bologna.
A partisan of the 1st Battalion, "Red Star-Lupo" Brigade, he was captured & later shot at the "Colli di Paderno" on January 14.
He was 17.
#14gennaio #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — More than 50 civilians were massacred by Black Legion (#Ustaše) & Wehrmacht troops in Istria #Otd in 1944.
Šajini & Bokordići were looted & set ablaze & women, children & elderly murdered. The Ustashas were supported by Nazis & Italian Fascists.
#8gennaio #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — In January 1943 Fascist Italy's occupation army in #Yugoslavia stormed several villages in Croatia's Gospic district.
The divisions “Lombardia" & "Re" set houses, barns, and warehouses on fire; a large part of the residents was killed or deported.
#8gennaio #ItalianiBravaGente

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Giovanni Cervi (40) was murdered by the Nazi-Fascists #Otd in 1943 in Milano.
Among the organisers of the March 1943 anti-Fascist strikes, he was arrested by the #SS in November & shot with other 7 patriots in the city's arena.
#19dicembre #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — RAF pilot Arthur Banks GC was murdered by the Nazi-Fascists #Otd 80 years ago .
Shot down with his plane, he joined the #partisans near Rovigo. He was tortured, doused in petrol, set alight & shot after being captured by the enemy.
He was 21.
#19dicembre #LestWeForget #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Gabriella Degli Esposti was murdered by the Nazi-Fascists #Otd 80 years ago near Modena.
A partisan & Women's Groups (GDD) activist, she was pregnant when she was captured & brutally tortured by the SS before being shot.
#17dicembre #BellaCiao #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — 400+ Jews were massacred by the Croatian Ustaše in #Brcko (Bosnia) over 8 days starting #Otd in 1941.
Most victims were butchered with knives or clubs, or drowned in the Sava river by the Ustashas, who were backed by the Nazis & the Italian Fascists.
#10dicembre #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — 18-year-old Italian freedom fighter Antonio Friz was murdered by the Nazis #Otd 80 years ago in Udine.
He withstood brutal tortures without speaking, and was shot with 3 partisan comrades at 5.15 pm on December 10th, 1944.
#OnThisDay #10dicembre #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

Italian Jew Alberto Segre was arrested by the Fascist police #Otd in 1943.
He was transported to Germany with his daughter Liliana (13) in January 1944 & interned in #Auschwitz III-Monowitz, where he died.
#LilianaSegre survived & became a Senator for life in Italy.
#8dicembre #FascistCrimes

#FascistCrimes — Between 85-95 inmates were murdered by the fascist #Ustaše in Croatia #Otd in 1941.
Mostly Serbs, Muslims, nomads & Jews died in one of the frequent massacres in the Ustasha's #Jasenovac camp, run with the support of the Nazis and Italian Fascists.
#8dicembre

#FascistCrimes — 3,000 Bosnians were massacred by the Chetniks during a mass slaughter which started #Otd in 1941 in #Foča (Bosnia).
The massacre went on daily until #Tito's Yugoslav partisans managed to free the town on January 20th, 1942.
#5dicembre #OnThisDay #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — French partisan George Blind was murdered in Auschwitz #Otd 80 years ago.
The photo of him smiling before a German firing squad a few months earlier became an icon of the Resistance.
Spared on that occasion, he was eventually sent to the Nazi death camp.
#4dicembre #BellaCiao #WW2

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luciano Nicoletti was murdered by the Nazi-Fascists #Otd 80 years ago.
A partisan with the 5th Brigade of the 1st Autonomous Division "Osoppo-Friuli," he was captured in an ambush near Tramonti di Sotto and died under torture.
#4dicembre #WW2 #Resistenza

"Please tell the Germans not to aim at my head and disfigure me. Mum might come and see me."
These were the last words by Italian freedom fighter Pietro Vitrani (18 years), who was shot by the Nazis this week 80 years ago near Turin.
#4dicembre #streetart #FascistCrimes #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Ventura was murdered by the Nazis #Otd 80 years ago near Bologna.
A farm labourer & member of the 9th (autonomous) Brigade "Santa Justa", he was captured and executed on December 2nd, 1944.
He was 39.
#2dicembre #BellaCiao #WW2 #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — The 7 Cervi brothers were arrested by the Fascists with their comrade Quarto Camurri #Otd 81 years ago, on the night between the 24th and the #25November.
They were executed without trial on 28 December the same year in Reggio Emilia.
#25novembre #Resistenza #BellaCiao #partisans

#FascistCrimes — 14 Italian civilians were murdered by a mixed Nazi/Fascists squad #Otd 80 years ago in #Regnano (Tuscany.)
The massacre was carried out by elements of the 148th Div. German Infantry & of the 33th #BlackBrigade “Apuana”.
The youngest of the victims was 15.
#23novembre #BellaCiao #WW2

#FascistCrimes. 24-year-old nurse Laura Guazzaloca was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago, near Modena.
A caregiver serving with the 36th #GaribaldiBrigade, she was rounded up with a group of patients.
All of them were shot without trial by Hitler's Italian goons.
#23novembre #BellaCiao #WW2

#FascistCrimes — A 10-year-old boy was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago in Casteggio, near Milan.
#MustafaAbdalla, a Romani Italian boy, was walking on the street when he came across a squad of #BlackBrigade militians who shot him dead, just for target practice.
#19novembre #WW2

#FascistCrimes — Four Italian antifascists were murdered by the Fascist police #Otd 80 years ago near Reggio Emilia.
The patriots, Prospero Bertani (54), Giuseppe Carri, Fausto Franchini (both 38,) & Adalgiso Guardasoni (19) were tortured before being executed.
#19novembre #BellaCiao #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — Two civilians were murdered by Italian Fascist quislings #Otd 80 years ago near Pavia.
Baker Francesco Barberini & farm labourer Renato Persico, both 20 & evading the draft into #MussoIini's forces, were captured by "Sicherheits Abteilung" guards & shot.
#19novembre #BellaCiao #WW2

#FascistCrimes — The Croatian village of Primošten was destroyed by the Italian Fascists #Otd in 1942, on the orders of General Roatta.
After the attack - a reprisal for a Yugoslav Resistance attack on Italian Navy soldiers - dozens of civilians were killed or interned.
#16novembre #Resistenza #WW2

#FascistCrimes — The massacre of the castle of Ferrara took place #Otd in 1943.
11 men known as antifascists, or mere suspects, or #Jewish, were murdered after being rounded up, on the orders of Alessandro Pavolini, the Secretary of MussoIini's Fascist Party (PNF.)
#15novembre #BellaCiao #OnThisDay

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Serazzi was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago near Novara.
A #partisan of the 81st #GaribaldiBrigade "Volante Loss", he was captured, tortured & shot when it became clear to his captors he wouldn't speak.
He was 21.
#14novembre #Resistenza

#FascistCrimes — German freedom fighter Walter Cramer was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1944 in Berlin.
At 54, he took part in the Resistance with Leipzig's former mayor C.F.Goerdeler. After the 1944 failed attempt on Hitler's life, he was captured with others & hanged.
#14novembre #Otd

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Guglielmo "Willy" Jervis and 4 other partisans were murdered by the Nazis #Otd 80 years ago, on August 5, 1944, in Villar Pellice.
Their bodies were left hanging from poles and balconies as a warning to the local civilians.
#5agosto

#FascistCrimes — Virginia Longhi was shot by the Fascists in Macerata, Italy, #Otd 80 years ago.
Her only "crime" was to voice her support for the freedom fighters and raise suspicions of being the girlfriend of a #partisan.
Even the Nazis were revolted by her murder.
#4agosto