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Attack In Via Rasella
The Via Rasella attack () was an action taken by the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi German occupation forces in Rome, Kingdom of Italy, Italy, on 23 March 1944. Location Via Rasella is located in the centre of the city of Rome, in the Rioni of Rome, rione of Trevi (rione of Rome), Trevi; it connects Via delle Quattro Fontane (next to the Palazzo Barberini) with Via del Traforo, and took its name from the property of the Raselli family which was located there. History The attack was led by the ''Gruppi di Azione Patriottica'' (Patriotic Action Groups) against the 11th company of the 3rd battalion of the ''SS Police Regiment Bozen, SS-Polizeiregiment "Bozen"'' (Police Regiment "Bozen" from Bolzano), a military unit of the German ''Ordnungspolizei'' ("Order Police") recruited in the largely ethnic-German South Tyrol, Alto Adige region in north-east Italy, during the de facto German annexation of the region (Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills, OZAV). At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operational Zone Of The Alpine Foothills
The Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills ( (OZAV); ) was a Nazi German occupation zone in the sub-Alpine area in Italy during World War II. Origin and geography OZAV was established on 10 September 1943 by the occupying German Wehrmacht, as a response to the Allied Armistice with Italy proclaimed two days earlier following the Allied invasion of Italy. It comprised the provinces of Belluno, Bolzano and Trento. The Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral, comprising the provinces of Udine, Görz, Trieste, Pula, Rijeka, Kvarner Gulf and Ljubljana, was established on the same day. Both operational zones were separate from the Italian Social Republic (RSI), based in Salò on Lake Garda, which governed the remainder of Italy that had not yet been occupied by the Allies. Administration OZAV was administered by High Commissioner Franz Hofer. The zone was administered as part of the Reichsgau of Tirol-Vorarlberg. The capital of the zone was Bolzano. Hofer wanted to amalg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Fiorentini
Mario Fiorentini (7 November 1918 – 9 August 2022) was an Italian partisan, spy, mathematician, and academic, for years a professor of geometry at the University of Ferrara. He engaged in numerous partisan actions, including the assault on the entrance to the Regina Coeli prison and participating in the organization of the Via Rasella attack. He was Italy's most decorated World War II partisan. Biography Youth Fiorentini was born in Rome to Maria Moscatelli and Pacifico Fiorentini on 7 November 1918. His mother, a Catholic, moved to Rome from Cittaducale in search of work, like many other young people at the time; his father, who was Jewish, worked as an accountant and bankruptcy trustee. During the war As a student, Fiorentini collaborated clandestinely with Giustizia e Libertà and with the Communist Party. At the beginning of 1943, he set up with performances at Mazzini Theater and at Delle Arti with actors such as Vittorio Gassman, Lea Padovani, Nora Ricci, Vittorio C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Capponi
Carla Capponi aka The Little English Girl (7 December 1918 – 24 November 2000) was an Italian partisan and politician who received the Gold Medal of Military Valour for her participation in the Italian resistance movement. Biography Youth Carla Capponi grew up in Rome, where she was the eldest child. She attended the Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasio in the same class as Carlo Lizzani and Piero Della Seta, the future Communist city councillor Piero Della Seta. In 1940 her father who was a mining engineer died and the three sisters had to work, forcing Carla Capponi to abandon her studies of law. On 19 July 1943, immediately after the bombing of San Lorenzo, Carla rushed to the Policlinico Hospital in search of her mother and remained there as a volunteer; subsequently she allows clandestinely communist activists to gather in her apartment in front of the Trajan's Forum, including Gioacchino Gesmundo, Luciano Lusana, Adele Bei, Carla Angelini and Mario Leporatti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario Bentivegna
Rosario Bentivegna (22 June 1922 – 2 April 2012) was an Italian partisan and doctor. During the Second World War, while studying medicine at university, Bentivegna joined the Italian Communist Party and became an active member of the guerilla groups organized by the following the occupation of Italy by Nazi Germany. Under the codename "Paolo", he was one of the principle actors of the Via Rasella attack that killed 32 soldiers of the SS Police Regiment Bozen. After the war, Bentivegna remained a member of the Communist Party and married fellow Italian partisan Carla Capponi, who together promoted their party and the actions of the Italian resistance movement. Political and partisan activities According to his own memoirs, Bentivegna became an anti-fascist in 1937 following the introduction of anti-Semitic propaganda and racist legislation in Italy. Bentivegna co-founded the Trotskyist Group for Marxist Unification (GUM, Gruppo di Unificazione Marxista) in 1939 with Corrado No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Calamandrei
Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" * Franco of Cologne (mid to late 13th century), German music theorist Prefix * Franco, a prefix used when referring to France, a country ** Franco, a prefix used when referring to French people and their diaspora, e.g. Franco-Americans, Franco-Mauritians * Franco, a prefix used when referring to Franks, a West Germanic tribe Places * Franco (Mirandela), a village in Portugal * El Franco, a municipality of Asturias in Spain * Presidente Franco District, in Paraguay * Franco, Virginia, an unincorporated community, in the United States Other uses * Franco (band), Filipino band * Franco (''General Hospital''), a fictional character on the American soap opera ''General Hospital'' * Franco, the Luccan franc, a 19th-century currency of Lucca, Italy * ''Franco, Ciccio e il pirata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlo Salinari
Carlo Salinari (November 17, 1919 – May 25, 1977) was an Italian literary critic and academic. Career Salinari graduated in literature at the Sapienza University of Rome, University of Rome in 1941. A member of the Italian Communist Party, he was an active participant in the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica, Patriotic Action Groups. He was one of the organizers of the Via Rasella attack in March 1944. He was arrested by Italian fascists in April 1944 and handed to the German occupiers. He remained a prisoner of the Germans until the liberation of Rome. Salinari taught at the universities of University of Palermo, Palermo, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, University of Milan, Milan, University of Salerno, Salerno and Rome where he chaired the Faculty of Letters in 1977. He was responsible for the Cultural Section of the Communist Party. In 1954 he founded with the magazine ''Il Contemporaneo'' with Antonello Trombadori which promoted Marxist aesthetics. He was a convinced defend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
