Chronology of World War II

Friday, March 24

The Massacre at the Ardeatine Caves


The Massacre at the Ardeatine Caves
The Fosse Ardeatine massacre (Italian: Eccidio delle Fosse Ardeatine) was a mass killing carried out in Rome on March 24, 1944 by German occupation troops during the Second World War as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against the SS Police Regiment Bozen