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 ...
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