NEVER FORGET

The place is called Murgetta Rossi for the color of its soil.

In 1943, after the downfall of BenitoMussolini, the prime minister Badogliosigned an Armistice with the general

Eisenhower

commander in chief of the allied forces led by the USA

This armistice represented Italian surrender and the end of all the

hostility.

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Consequently, the Italian army’s broke up, after the announcement and it became uncontrollable: the majority of the divisions operating in the center and in the north of

Italy were captured by the Nazis.

THE TROOPS WERE:

tired, disheartened, hungry and shabby, trending to defect.

Even the Italian commanders left the Nazis free to act. Every Italian soldier only wished go home while, contrarily, the Italian anti-fascist encouraged them to carry on. Then, the

Nazis troops occupied Italy.

What happened in Murgetta

Rossi?

1) Italian soldiers came back home

2) Nazis troops arrived

3) Italian soldiers died

4) Today Murgetta Rossi is a graveyard

The 22 poor unknown soldiers were shot. Those young men remained on the ground for

two years.

Dismay and desolation

Democracy and tolerance