There are two sad elements to this story.
A-As so oft before during WWII victims had been given a sense of hope, often false hope given by the Nazi’s to even inflict psychological terror upon the physical crimes. However in this case the hope was given by the allies.
B. So very little is known about this event, just the numbers and no names.
On 10 July 1943, a combined force of American and British Commonwealth troops invaded Sicily.
German generals again took the lead in the defense and, although they lost the island after weeks of bitter fights, they succeeded in ferrying large numbers of German and Italian forces safely off Sicily to the Italian mainland. On 19 July, an Allied air raid on Rome destroyed both military and collateral civil installations. With these two events, popular support for the war diminished in Italy.
On 25 July, the Grand Council of Fascism voted to…
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