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This is the case of Gisella Floreanini, the first woman in Italy to hold a government post in the partisan Republic of Ossola, between September and October 1944. A cultured and intelligent woman, she immediately became a point of reference for Italian anti-fascists. She was responsible for women's defense groups and was entrusted with the role ...
General underground Italian opposition to the Fascist Italian government existed even before World War II, but open and armed resistance followed the German invasion of Italy on 8 September 1943: in Nazi-occupied Italy, the Italian Resistance fighters, known as the partigiani , fought a guerra di liberazione nazionale ('national liberation war ...
[29] [30] [l] On the Western Front of World War II, Italy was the most costly campaign in terms of casualties suffered by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoints at the Winter Line, the Anzio beachhead and the Gothic Line. [31]
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The Florence American Cemetery and Memorial is about 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) south of Florence, Italy, about two miles (3 km) south of the Florence-Impruneta exit of the Rome-Milan autoroute. It covers about 70 acres (28 ha), chiefly on the west side of the Greve river , framed by wooded hills.
Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865 and, ... During World War II, the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943–1944). On September 25 ...
The Tuscan Committee of National Liberation (Italian: CTLN or Comitato Toscano di Liberazione Nazionale) was an underground Italian resistance organisation during World War II based in Tuscany, Central Italy. [1] An offshoot of the National Liberation Committee (CLN), it was charged with organising resistance and partisan activities throughout ...
The Carabinieri of Fiesole were three Italian soldiers who were killed by Nazis on August 12, 1944. [1] On August 11, the three Carabinieri - Alberto La Rocca, Vittorio Marandola and Fulvio Sbarretti (with their commanding officer Francesco Naclerio [2] received orders to leave their barracks in Fiesole, so to be able to collaborate in the liberation of the nearby city of Florence from German ...