Commiss. scuola ANPI Brescia#FascistCrimes — #Otd in 1944, in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, the Nazis and their fascist collaborators tricked 31 young #partisans into surrender and murdered them, leaving their bodies to hang from the trees lining the town's main boulevard.
#FascistCrimes — Fr. Eligio Bortolotti was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1944 in Baroncoli (Florence).
The priest had been summoned the day before at the German command, where he was held, under suspicion of helping the partisans.
His body was dumped in a mass grave.
#FascistCrimes — 47 disabled children were murdered by the #Nazis in Nizhne Chirskaya, Ukraine, #Otd in 1942.
Taken by truck to a pre-dug mass grave, they were shot by #Gestapo agents.
Some bodies, later exhumed, did not have bullet holes. They'd been buried alive.
#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luciano Bracci was murdered by the #Fascists with other 8 partisans & 3 civilians #Otd in 1944 in Bologna.
They were shot in an act of reprisal by a notorious torturer, Renato Tartarotti, head of the "CAS" auxiliary police squad.
#FascistCrimes — Corsican freedom fighter Jean Nicoli was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago in Bastia.
Member of the French Section of the Workers' International, he was captured by Mussolini’s secret police OVRA. He refused to be shot in the back & was stabbed.
"#FascistCrimes — Father Libero Raglianti, priest and freedom fighter, was murdered by the Nazis #Otd, August 29, 1944.
Interrogated and tortured for 16 days, he was shot #OnThisDay in Laiano di Filettole (Tuscany).
Posthumously awarded the Gold medal for military valour.
#FascistCrimes — 6 civilians were burned alive by the Nazis #Otd, August 22 1944 in Bagnasco.
5 belonged to the Canavese family, and ranged in age from 6 months to 56 years.
The Nazis couldn't find the men who had joined the Resistance, so they murdered women and children.
#FascistCrimes — 19-year-old Slovenian freedom fighter Fran Sesek was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1941, near Smlednik.
He was the first partisan to be executed in #Slovenia: this photo became one of the best-known images of WW2 in the Balkans.
#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luigi Pierobon (22) was shot by the Fascists #Otd in 1944.
A catholic, he joined a Communist rebel band to fight the enemy.
Captured, he was tortured and executed with other antifascist #partisans.
He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal for military valour.
#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Angelo Beltrami was murdered by the Fascists #Otd in 1944 in Montebello, near Milan.
A partisan with the Garibaldi Division "Aliotta", he was wounded & captured by Pavia's Black Brigade & shot.
He was 21.
