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Italian civilians exhume a mass grave containing the bodies of 38 Italians shot by German forces.

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    Italian civilians exhume a mass grave containing the bodies of 38 Italians shot by German forces.
    Italian civilians exhume a mass grave containing the bodies of 38 Italians shot by German forces. The victims were chosen at random and killed in reprisal for the murder of an Italian Fascist by partisans in August 1944. A young Italian woman who protested the killings to the Germans was shot along with the other hostages.

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    Italian civilians exhume a mass grave containing the bodies of 38 Italians shot by German forces.

    The victims were chosen at random and killed in reprisal for the murder of an Italian Fascist by partisans in August 1944. A young Italian woman who protested the killings to the Germans was shot along with the other hostages.
    Date
    1944 October 30
    Locale
    Pietrasanta, [Lucca; Tuscany] Italy
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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    National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Copyright: Public Domain
    Source Record ID: 111-SC-197643 (Album 3219)

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