What the records say
- When
- 4 Jun 1944
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 33
- Coordinates
- 41.97° N, 13.40° E
- Description
- mass killing made by Nazi-Fascists in Italy
Capistrello massacre
Mass killing made by Nazis and Fascists in Italy
The Capistrello massacre was a mass killing carried out in Capistrello, a small town in Abruzzo, Italy, on 4 June 1944 by Nazi and Fascist occupation troops during World War II. A first tragical episode occurred a few months earlier on 20 March, when a local youth was barbarically tortured and then shot.
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