Ardeatine massacre

When

24 Mar 1944

Kind

Murder

Killed

335

Coordinates

41.86° N, 12.51° E

Description

mass killing carried out by Nazi troops in Rome, 1944

1944 mass killing outside Rome by German soldiers

The Ardeatine massacre, or Fosse Ardeatine massacre, was a mass killing of 335 civilians and political prisoners carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for the Via Rasella attack in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen the previous day.

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