Plaque Modena

After 8 September 1943, the German occupation and fascism of Salò in Italy led to deportations, raids and reprisals. These targeted those who had long been persecuted, those who fought and those who took the risk to save lives that would otherwise be lost.

A heavy fate befell the civilians who were deported en masse and forced into forced labor in Germany, and the six hundred and fifty thousand soldiers and officers who were captured in their homeland or at the front and imprisoned in German camps after the dissolution of our armed forces.

It was the Italian military internees who resisted without weapons and for honor, who said no, who refused to undergo the final phase of fascism and did not submit to those who oppressed them.

Fifty thousand people died from starvation, hangings and shootings.

We owe it to keep them in our memory

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