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ordigni applicati ad opera d'ignoti all'autocarro germanico con rimorchio targa W.M. 111092 li sostante dalle ore 3 di stamane e affidato all'autiere caporal
Maggiore Kuhn Heinz, che dormiva nella cabina di guida. Decedute 6 persone e precisamente: 1- Zanini Edoardo di Pietro anni 31 - domiciliato a Milano- via Rusco N° 8 2- Giudici Giuseppe fu Carlo anni 60 - domic. a Milano v. Nicola De Puglie 3- Zanicotti Giuseppe fu Angelo anni 28 - dom. Milano via Gran Sasso 2 4- Brioschi Primo - domiciliato a Mezzago, v. del Pozzo 7 5- Moro Gianfranco fu Leonida anni 19 dom. Como, v. Chiesa d'Abbate 4 6- La sesta è una donna età apparente anni 35 priva di documenti. Ferite 11 persone e precisamente: 1- Milanesi Riccardo di Amedeo anni 17 via Baldarino 30 - Ric. Osped. di Niguarda 2- Castoldi Luigi di Carlo anni 29 - Monza, via Lecco 69 3- Brambilla Ettore di Riccardo anni 48, v. Gran Sasso 5 idem 4- Terrana Giorgio fu Sante anni 26, corso Buenos Aires 92 idem 5- De Ponti Ferruccio fu Luigi anni 28, v. Accademia 53 idem Feriti medicati e ritornati ai loro domicili 6- Passera Umberto fu Giuseppe, anni 51 - v. Friuli 65 - Milano 7- Passera Guido fu Giuseppe, anni 46 - v. Friuli 65 - Milano 8- Abbia Arnaldo fu Francesco, anni 29, corso Buenos Aires 25 - Milano 9- Cattaneo Luigi fu Giovanni, anni 14, viale Monza 9 - Milano 10- Robbiati Achille fu Carlo, anni 48 - viale Abruzzi 84 - Milano 11- Capol. Magg. Kuhn Heinz, ferito leggermente alla guancia destra.»
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248:, always denied that the attack could have been carried out by any partisan unit. Certain anomalous elements have caused some to define the attack as controversial: corporal major Kuhn had parked the vehicle a short distance from a garage in via Natale Battaglia and from the Titanus hotel, both requisitioned by the Wehrmacht and available to Nazi military personnel. Kesselring 's ban, invoked by the communiqué and by the high Nazi hierarchies, provided for the shooting of ten Italians for every German only in the case of Nazi victims. But in the Viale Abruzzi attack, no German soldier was killed: the dead and seriously injured were all Italians.
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could and looked in his pockets for messages that they might have written, in order to deliver them to the families. He managed to perform this work of mercy before a fascist militia chased him away. Three days later he was ordained a priest. Barbareschi then recounted that after having prayed on his knees in front of the bodies, he turned around and saw that all the crowd present had knelt with him. When the following year the corpses of Benito
Mussolini, Claretta Petacci and 18 fascist hierarchs were exposed in the same place, Don Barbareschi returned to bless the bodies.
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guarantee the maximum freedom of movement for the Nazi troops towards the
Brenner pass. Theo Saevecke, whose command was at the Albergo Regina & Metropoli in via Silvio Pellico, headquarters of the SS, of the security services (SD) and of the Political Police (the Gestapo ) and a well-known place of torture, demanded and nevertheless obtained, the summary shooting of fifteen anti-fascists, and he compiled the list himself, as testified by Elena Morgante, employed in the SS office, who was ordered to type it.
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Milanese citizens and the wounding of eleven others. Despite the absence of military victims and a claim, the episode was still used as a pretext for the shooting of the 15 partisans. The episode, with very different and anomalous characteristics compared to the other partisan attacks, it is suspected, as was also done by the court in the trial held in 1998, was artfully organized by the Germans themselves to justify the subsequent reprisals.
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viale Andrea Doria. On the front, the monument bears a bas-relief representing a martyr subjected to execution on the iconography of San
Sebastiano, on the back it bears the words "ALTA/L'ILLUMINATA FRONTE/CADDERO NEL NOME/DELLA LIBERTÀ" followed by the list of 15 fallen, the date of the massacre, 10 August 1944 and the symbols of the Italian Republic and the Municipality of Milan.
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prevented relatives from paying homage to the dead, were publicly vilified and outraged in all ways by the fascists and auxiliaries of the RSI; Moreover, to intimidate the population and remove any support for the
Resistance, the fascist militia forced, weapons in hand, the citizens in transit, on foot, by bicycle or on the tram, to attend the «show».
697:^Cf. article by Guido Salvini, at that time GIP at the Court of Milan, in Diario della settimana, 21/01/2006, "The other closet of shame. There is not only that of Rome, which "filed" the Nazi war crimes. Now there is also another: that of the CIA. That enlisted many former SS". Archive of the association "Le radici della Pace - I Quindici".
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There were many corpses on the sidewalks, against the fence, some theater posters, the "Gazetta del
Sorriso", signs, bandits! Captured bandits with weapons in hand! Around, people change, the hot sun. When I came to see them it was like a vertigo: shoes, hands, arms, dirty stockings; (...) in my eyes
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Upon hearing the news, the partisan Don
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On 8 August 1944, unknown elements carried out an attack with two explosive devices against a German lorry (registration number WM 111092) parked in viale
Abruzzi in Milan. In that attack, no German soldier was killed (the driver Heinz Kuhn, who slept in the cockpit, suffered only minor injuries) but
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in August 1944, just after seeing the mockery that the rogue republic made of the bodies of our brothers. Yet there was in me, in the fire and anxiety that agitated me, in trying to express what I had seen, a great peace and not hatred, but an immense sadness for the fratricidal struggle. From those
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After the shooting - which took place at 06:10 - for the purpose of intimidation, the broken corpses were left exposed under the sun of the hot summer day, covered with flies, until about 20 o'clock. A cartel classified the partisans shot as "murderers". The bodies, guarded by Muti soldiers who also
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At the end of the war, a memorial stone was erected on the site of the massacre and in memory of the martyrs who fell there. This memorial stone was replaced by a monument erected in August 1960, the work of the sculptor
Giannino Castiglioni (1884-1971), located on the corner between the square and
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Nel verbale della Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana, reperibile nell'Archivio di Stato di Milano, Fondo Gnr, busta 64, c. 36, f. VII, sf. 8., si legge: «Oggetto: Attentato terroristico. Milano, li 8/8/1944. Ore 8,15 di oggi in viale Abruzzi all'altezza dello stabile segnato col N° 77 scoppiavano due
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At dawn on 10 August 1944, in Milan, fifteen partisans were taken from the San Vittore prison and taken to Piazzale Loreto, where they were shot by a firing squad made up of fascist militias of the Oberdan group of the «Ettore Muti» legion led by Captain Pasquale Cardella who was acting under the
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It is therefore legitimate to assume, as the Military Tribunal of Turin did in the Saevecke trial, that the massacre in Piazzale Loreto was a deliberate act of terrorism which had the strategic aim of crushing popular sympathy for the Resistance in order to avoid any form of collaboration and to
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Following the memorandum, Mussolini communicated to the German ambassador to the RSI, Rudolf Rahn, that the methods used by the German military "were contrary to the feelings of the Italians and offended their natural mildness"; in fact, however, without making a concrete commitment to restore
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justice. Less than a year later, at dawn on April 29, 1945, in the same square, the corpses of Mussolini, his lover Claretta Petacci and 15 other fascists, were exposed in front of the crowd that had flocked to the news of the Duce's death.
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I won't hide from you that I feel deeply uncomfortable in my office, since the German way of proceeding is such as to make the task of any authority too difficult and causes a growing aversion on the part of the population towards the
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Documento senza data (ma databile 11 agosto 1944) nelle carte del processo Saevecke, ora nell'archivio del Tribunale Militare di Verona. Il comandante della sicurezza che firma il comunicato era appunto il capitano delle SS Theodor
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To my remonstrances, the Nazi commanders all responded in the same way: the execution had been an application of Marshal Kesselring's ban The impression in the city remains very strong and hostility towards the Germans has greatly
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The execution and the vilification of the corpses deeply impressed public opinion, so much so that the Prefect of Milan and head of the Province Piero Parini in his «Pro memoria urgente per il duce» notes
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Report 78th SIB del 21/5/1946 (doc. n° 913) nelle carte del processo Saevecke, ora nell'archivio del Tribunale Militare di Verona e Silvio Bertoldi, Piazzale Loreto, citato, pag. 233.
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war criminals, he was drafted into the US secret service after the war (code name Cabanio) and later held the important position of deputy head of the security services of the
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as a child it was an unheard of thing: men lying on sidewalks like garbage and other men, young people dressed in black, who seemed to be on guard with guns!
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proposes a custom of Sassu's poetics, that is the dialectic between the rendering of contemporary reality and the actualization of the myth.
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The wretches had not even had the assistance of the priest, which is not denied even to the most abject murderer.
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There have also been partial strikes in some factories and there are rumors that one is being prepared tomorrow.
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bleeding and inert bodies a warning arose: peace, peace".
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