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unusual facts about Italian partisans



Hymn of the Nations

Toscanini added a bridge passage to include arrangements of The Star Spangled Banner for the United States and The Internationale for the Soviet Union and the Italian partisans.

Massacre of the Acqui Division

The subject of the massacre was largely ignored in Italy by the press and the educational system until 1980, when the Italian President Sandro Pertini, a former partisan, unveiled the memorial in Cephalonia.

Pietro Caruso

Together with Herbert Kappler, the German Gestapo chief in Rome, Caruso organised the massacre in Fosse Ardeatine on 24 March 1944 as revenge for an attack the day before by Italian partisans on a column of German soldiers in Rome.


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Slepcev Storch

The designer has a keen interest in Second World War history and wanted to use an example of his Storch design to re-enact the 12 September 1943 rescue of Benito Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny and his SS commandos from his imprisonment by Italian partisans on the Gran Sasso mountain.

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

The film opens with Major Wright fighting alongside Italian partisans in a town near Turin.

The Golden Keel

When Walker was a prisoner of war in Fascist Italy, he managed to escape with a small band of Allied prisoners, including an Afrikaner named Coertze and some Italian partisans, and waged a guerilla campaign for several months in the hills of Liguria against the Nazi Germans.