Rome falls Under the control of Nazi occupiers that between 1943 and 1944 they submitted the population to terror, massacres, torture.
It is in this context that the action of via Rasella is inserted: on that occasion, the groups of patriotic action succeeded in a courageous military operation that he saw the assault on a Nazi battalion marching on the streets of the center, leading to the killing of 33 SS soldiers. The Nazi retaliation to this event was, as sadly known, the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine in which 335 prisoners killed.
In the years There were several attempts to criminalize the action of via Rasella da part of the historical revisionists - up to the "externation" of La Russa della last year: "Via Rasella was a anything but noble page of the resistance, those killed were a semi-thin and non-semi-thought band Nazis of the SS, knowing very well the risk of retaliation on citizens Romans, anti -fascists and not ยป.
Always, bravely and consistently the protagonists of the action have The partisan resistance defended the attempts to criminalize them. They left us memorable pages on Roman resistance.
We resume Here the biographical notes taken from the ANPI website of some of the protagonists:
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Silver medal at the valor Military
Born in Rome on June 22, 1922, doctor, Died in Rome on April 2, 2012. Silver medal for military valor.
Already in the high school years he was an anti -fascist assets. With Leonardo
Jannaccone, Corrado Nourian and Nino Baldini constituted, in 1939, a
group called "Marxist unification", which he attracted soon
The attention of the fascist police. Arrested in 1941, after release
Bentivegna joined the Communist Party in 1943. With the armistice and the
training of the patriotic action groups, he was among the most valiant protagonists
of the Resistance, both in Rome (assault on German soldiers in Piazza Barberini,
Attack on a fascist procession in via Tomacelli) that in the Casilina area,
where he commanded partisan formations.
On March 23, 1944 with
Carla Capponi
(That
He would then be his wife), he was among the authors of the
Action of via Rasella
, who put out
fight 33 SS soldiers and which was the pretext for the massacre of
Had ardeatine. A few months after the liberation of the capital, Bentivegna
he decided to continue his fight against the Nazi -fascists in
Yugoslavia
e
in
Montenegro
.
Returned to Italy after the conclusion of the conflict, this valiant
fighter (who for a couple of years was also the editor of the newspaper
the unit
,
Before resuming their studies and dedicating himself to the profession of doctor), he is
was subjected to his partisan companies to numerous processes, come on
which has always been acquitted for the legitimacy of his actions.
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Silver medal at the valor Military
Born in Rome on 7 November 1918, died in Rome on 9 August 2022. Mathematical and university professor, multidecto to military valor.
He was still a commercial student when he began to carry out clandestine activity in "justice and freedom" and in the party Communist. After July 25, 1943, he gave birth to other anti -fascists Romans, to the "Arditi del Popolo" formation. September 9 Fiorentini took part in the fights against the Germans in Porta San Paolo e In October '43 he formed and directed the central gaps " A. Gramsci "And" Carlo Pisacane ", with the battle name of "Giovanni", operating in the 4th area of Rome. In this role He participated, in the capital, in numerous actions, including those of via Rasella e at the Regina Coeli prison. After the liberation of Rome, he made himself parachute North. With the battle name of "Dino" he worked in Liguria, Emilia, Lombardy and Piedmont, as an OSS officer, the service American secret. Was decorated with three silver medals at the valor military and three war crosses of merit, and with the special force medal (GB) and the Donovan of the OSS (USA). Self -taught, after the war has started, supported by his wife ( Lucia Ottabrini , a known anti -fascist during clandestinity), high school studies and then university studies. Fiorentini thus became a teacher of geometry superior to the University of Ferrara. His math studies have been resumed and deepened in everything The world and have made the former Gappista an internationally renowned mathematician.
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Born in Rome on 7 December 1921, Decease in Zagarolo (Rome), on November 23, 2000, gold medal at valor military.