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Fulvio Zamponi

Fulvio Zamponi was an antifascist and communist from Monsumano. Registered by the fascists in the Casellario Politico Ce...

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Gino Lombardi

Gino Lombardi was Versilia's first and most famous partisan. He came from an anti-fascist family, was an expert in the u...

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Valoris Poli

Valoris Poli was a young Pistoiese sentenced to death by the fascists for renunciation of conscription and shot on 31 Ma...

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Jacqueline Simon-Moncorgé

On June 30, 1944, 60 women volunteers of the Mission militaire française de liaison administrative (Military Mission for...

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Inigo Campioni

Inigo Campioni's name is not well known outside military circles, but his story is one of the most dramatic in 20th cent...

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Don Aldo Mei

Aldo Mei was born in Ruota di Capannori in 1912 and joined the seminary in 1925. During the war he preached against the ...

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Roberto Bartolozzi

With the bombing of the La Spezia factory, he moved to Lucca. Here, after 8 September, he came into contact with some an...

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Bogardo Buricchi

Bogardo Buricchi, partisan and poet from Prato, gave life to a partisan formation. He died in June 1944, while blowing u...

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Colin Wells Eglin

Colin Eglin was a South African soldier who fought on the Gothic Line. After the war, he founded a party, was a leading ...

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Peter Tompkins

Peter Tompkins was one of the protagonists of the "war of spies" played out in occupied Italy. In the postwar period, he...

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Giorgio Marincola

Long forgotten, the figure of Giorgio Marincola has been rediscovered in recent years as a symbol of the colonial crimes...

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Mark Wayne Clark

US General Mark Wayne Clark at the beginning of WWII was the main collaborator of General Dwight Eisenhower. He took com...

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Giuseppe Maria Palatucci

Mons. Giuseppe Maria Palatucci was born in Montella, in the province of Avellino, on 25 April 1892 to Giovanni and Carme...

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Eugenio Curiel

Eugenio Curiel was one of the most brilliant and tragic figures of the Italian Resistance. A brilliant scientist but a r...

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Edgardo Sogno

Edgardo Sogno played several pivotal roles in Italian history. During the Resistance, he stood out as the founder of the...

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The Resistance of Sesto San Giovanni workers

Sesto San Giovanni, north of Milan, is the city's most important industrial area and among the most important in Italy. ...

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From Polytechnic to 'Polytechnic'

Milan has always been the city of technology. The Polytechnic, its specialised university, was one of the hubs of the Re...

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Giovanni Palatucci

Giovanni Palatucci was born in Montella (Avellino) on 29 May 1909. There were three ecclesiastical persons in his family...

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Vincenzo Ferrante Gonzaga

Vincenzo Ferrante Gonzaga was an Italian soldier who died in WWII, and he was awarded a gold and silver medal of militar...

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Maiella Brigade

The Maiella Brigade is a partisan formation that operated near the Gustav Line during the campaign to liberate Italy fro...

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The 1st Italian Motorised Regiment

The 1st Motorised Regiment was the first combat unit of the reconstituted Italian army to be involved in Allied military...

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Italian Liberation Corps

The Italian Liberation Corps were a military unit of the reconstituted Italian army that from March 1944 directly contri...

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Don Malarkey's symbolic meeting in Bois Jacques (Jack’s Wood)

Sergeant Donald ’Don’ Malarkey was a member of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the U.S. 101st Airborne Divisi...

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Addi Bâ Mamadou

Addi Bâ Mamadou, or Hady Bah Mamadou, was born in 1916 in Guinea. During the Second World War, he was a soldier in the F...

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