Via Rasella Attack, Rome, Italy, 1944
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found: Work cat.: Katz, R. Death in Rome, 1967:p. 86 (Via Rasella attack)
found: World War II in Europe, 1999:pp. 14 ("On 23 March 1944, a group of partisans ambushed a German SS column on Rome's via Rasella. The partisans were part of the Gruppi di Azione Patriotica, young people organized by the Communist Garibaldi Brigades & the Action Party to carry out attacks against German and Fascist targets. Of the 150 SS security troops, 33 were killed and 70 wounded. The German response was Draconian.")
found: Oxford comp. to World War II, 2005:p. 38 (Ardeatine Caves Massacre: German massacre of 335 political and Jewish prisoners which was carried out in the caves of the Via Ardeatina near Rome, in March 1944. It was in retaliation for the ambush of German troops by Italian partisans)
found: Synder, L.L. Historical guide to World War II, 1982("On March 23, 1944, a small band of Communist-dominated Italian partisans, after learning that a detachment of German police troops marched each day at the same time down the same street in the heart of Rome, planted a bomb that killed 33 Germans in a Waffen-SS unit.")
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2006-06-22: revised
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