#FascistCrimes — 47 disabled children were murdered by the #Nazis in Nizhne Chirskaya, Ukraine, #Otd in 1942.

Taken by truck to a pre-dug mass grave, they were shot by #Gestapo agents.

Some bodies, later exhumed, did not have bullet holes. They'd been buried alive.

#2settembre

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luciano Bracci was murdered by the #Fascists with other 8 partisans & 3 civilians #Otd in 1944 in Bologna.

They were shot in an act of reprisal by a notorious torturer, Renato Tartarotti, head of the "CAS" auxiliary police squad.

#30agosto

#FascistCrimes — Corsican freedom fighter Jean Nicoli was murdered by the Fascists #Otd 80 years ago in Bastia.

Member of the French Section of the Workers' International, he was captured by Mussolini’s secret police OVRA. He refused to be shot in the back & was stabbed.

#30agosto

"#FascistCrimes — Father Libero Raglianti, priest and freedom fighter, was murdered by the Nazis #Otd, August 29, 1944.

Interrogated and tortured for 16 days, he was shot #OnThisDay in Laiano di Filettole (Tuscany).

Posthumously awarded the Gold medal for military valour.

#29agosto"

#FascistCrimes — 6 civilians were burned alive by the Nazis #Otd, August 22 1944 in Bagnasco.

5 belonged to the Canavese family, and ranged in age from 6 months to 56 years.

The Nazis couldn't find the men who had joined the Resistance, so they murdered women and children.

#22agosto

#FascistCrimes — 19-year-old Slovenian freedom fighter Fran Sesek was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1941, near Smlednik.

He was the first partisan to be executed in #Slovenia: this photo became one of the best-known images of WW2 in the Balkans.

#22agosto

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Luigi Pierobon (22) was shot by the Fascists #Otd in 1944.

A catholic, he joined a Communist rebel band to fight the enemy.

Captured, he was tortured and executed with other antifascist #partisans.

He was posthumously awarded the Gold Medal for military valour.

#17agosto

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Angelo Beltrami was murdered by the Fascists #Otd in 1944 in Montebello, near Milan.

A partisan with the Garibaldi Division "Aliotta", he was wounded & captured by Pavia's Black Brigade & shot.

He was 21.

#10agosto #LestWeForget

#FascistCrimes — Italian soldiers from the 3rd Alpine Division “Julia” surrounded the village of #Ustje (Slovenia) #Otd in 1942.

They set fire to 84 houses, and 7 more in nearby #Uhanje, and murdered 8 civilians who were shot & dumped in a mass grave.

#August8 #WW2 #8agosto

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter and historian Vittorio Barbieri was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1944.

Captured during a daring reconnaissance mission, Vittorio was vainly tortured for days and finally shot on August 7, 1944, near Compiobbi (Florence).

#7agosto

#FascistCrimes — Jewish Italian teacher & football manager Raffaele Jaffe was murdered #Otd in 1944 in #Auschwitz.

Founder of Casale FC, he led the small team to conquer the Italian championship in 1913/1914.

He was later arrested, deported and killed in a gas chamber.

#6agosto

#FascistCrimes — Jewish-Italian freedom fighter Moise Poggetto was murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1944 at #Auschwitz.

Antifascist & member of the 19th Garibaldi Brigade (his daughter, poet Ines Poggetto was also a #partisan,) he was 69 years when he died, August 6, 1944.

#6agosto

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Guglielmo "Willy" Jervis and 4 other partisans were murdered by the Nazis #Otd, August 5, 1944, in Villar Pellice.

Their bodies were left hanging from poles and balconies as a warning to the local civilians.

#5agosto #LestWeForget #Resistenza #BellaCiao #Otd #OnThisDay #AccaddeOggi #Costituzione #partigiano #partigiani #memoria #partigiane #WW2 #RSI #fascismo #fascism #ThirdReich #wwii #Constitution #partigiana #partisan #partisans #history

#FascistCrimes — German freedom fighter Hilde Rake was murdered by the Nazis #Otd 80 years ago in Plötzensee.

A member of the Schulze-Boysen/Harnack #Resistance group with her husband Hans Coppi (executed on 22 December, 1942,) she was captured by the Gestapo & later guillotined.

#5agosto #LestWeForget #Resistenza #OnThisDay #AccaddeOggi #Costituzione #partigiano #partigiani #memoria #partigiane #WW2 #fascismo #fascism #ThirdReich #wwii #Constitution #partigiana #partisan #partisans #history

#FascistCrimes - Born in an Italian Jewish family, Mario Jacchia earned a medal in WW1.

He became a partisan in 1943 and was arrested on August 3rd, 1944.

Handed in to the #SS, he was tortured for days and tried to commit suicide twice.

His body was never found.

#3agosto

#FascistCrimes — Italian freedom fighter Enelio Vanzini was killed in battle with the Nazi-Fascists #Otd in 1944 in Castel Maggiore, near Bologna.

A carpenter & partisan of the GAP [urban guerilla] cell (7th #GaribaldiBrigade,) he was killed on August 2, 1944.

He was 21.

#2agosto

#FascistCrimes - Fascist Italy's troops murdered 5 Slovenian patriots #Otd in 1942 in #Dane.

Franc Žnidaršič, Janez Krajc, Franc Škerbec, Feliks Žnidaršič & Edvard Škerbec were shot in the back.

The photo of the execution was published after the war in #Ljubljana.

#31luglio

#FascistCrimes - Partisan Ferruccio Nazionale is summarily executed in Ivrea (Turin) by members of the fascist Decima MAS militia after being tortured.

The photo of the factory worker and Garibaldi Brigade freedom fighter hanging with a notice on his body became famous.

#29luglio

#FascistCrimes — Fr. Francesco Babini, a 30-year-old partisan priest arrested by the Nazi-Fascists, was cruelly tortured for 2 days and then murdered by a German #Nazi firing squad with other 8 citizens #Otd 1944, in Pievequinta, near Forlì.

#26luglio

#FascistCrimes — Three Italian civilians were murdered by the Nazis #Otd in 1944, near Florence.

Farmers Pasquale & Guido Taddei, and Donato Vermigli bumped into a German squad.

They were on their way to tend to their cattle. They were held, interrogated and executed.

#25luglio