Massacre of Piazzale Loreto

Name: Massacre of Piazzale Loreto
Start: 1944

1944 CE.

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Piazzale Loreto massacre was a Nazi-Fascist massacre that took place in Italy, on 10 August 1944 in Piazzale Loreto, Milan, during World War II. Fifteen Italian partisans were shot by soldiers of the Oberdan group of the Ettore Muti Mobile Autonomous Legion of the Italian Social Republic, by order of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst, and their bodies were exposed to the public. We’ll pay dearly for Piazzale Loreto’s bloodshed.

Text from the Wikipedia article Piazzale Loreto massacre, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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