Location:
Rome, Italy, Italy
Post Date:
Mar 25, 2023 6:07 PM
TAG ID:
sipaphotosfifteen811359
(RM)
Credit:
Pacific Press/Sipa USA/Newscom
Format:
3649 x 2424 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Pacific Press
Special:
*** World Rights ***
Keywords:
italy, rome, fosse ardeatine, 79th anniversary, 24 march 1944, c, Italy, Rome, news
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
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. (Photo by Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)