Italy: 79th anniversary of the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine

Andrea Ronchini

The Communist Front in memory of the 79th anniversary of the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine, was the mass execution of 335 civilians and political prisoners carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War (WWII) in retaliation for a partisan attack conducted on 23 March 1944 in Via Rasella in the centre of Rome.