August 1944: Turkmen killed three partisans in Rimini

[mufasa]

The pretext to remember August 1944 in Rimini ( 68 years ago, August 16th 1944, turkmen soldiers hang three partisans) is this beautiful certificate for a artillery lieutenant of the 162 (Turk) Infanterie Division, signed form the Generalleutnant Ralph von Heygendoff released 24 hours before the execution, probably near Rimini, as is almost certainly the photo of the officier is in an old street of Rimini (seems via Castelfidardo).....



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[mufasa]

The place of this story, is the central square of Rimini, Piazza Giulio Cesare until 1945, then Piazza 3 Martiri before the 1945 in memory of the partisans killed here. The square is located exactly between the Roman Arch of Augustus (27 b.c.) and Roman Bridge of Tiberius (21 a.d.). And according the, in this square, Julius Caesar made here the famous speech (49 b.c.) to his Legions (alea iacta est). And in the square there is the Statue of Caesar given to Mussolini to the town, and the cippus whence Julius Caesar made his speech......



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[mufasa]

And the Piazza Giulio Cesare (today Piazza Tre Martiri) August 16th, 1944, and today (on the floor indicates the exact place where he had the gallows) .... the three partisans had been captured by Turkomen soldiers of Colonel Christiani (303Turk. Gren. Reg.) exactly 68 years ago, August 14th, 1944, in an abandoned barracks of Rimini ................



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[mufasa]

and here the picture of these partisans hanged in the square .. the photo was taken August 13, 1944, in the barracks where they will be captured the next day in via Ducale where they were hidden (near Tiberius bridge) .... they were wanted for having set fire to some threshing machine to stop the Germans take away the wheat ....

from the left : Luigi Niccolo’ , Adelio Paglierani; Mario Cappelli,







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[mufasa]

copies of documents that the German action in Rimini .... and the communication of execution signed by Colonel Chrisitiani ... (from Amedeo Montemaggi books)



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[mufasa]

"classic" photos of turkstan soldiers in Rimini (summer 1944)....



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[mufasa]

and our President Giorgio Napolitano last year in Piazza Tre Martiri for 67th....




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[mufasa]

Finally, in the same square about a month later, on 21th September 1944, the allied soldiers advancing through the rubble and destruction of "Piazza Giulio Cesare – Piazza Tre Martiri"





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[Hank C.]

Excellent thread! Thanks for posting.

Hank

[WEISNER]

Yes I agree with Hank, well put together research and an interesting moment in history.

Kevin

[jacquesf]

Very interesting and informative thread. Jacques

[mufasa]

many thansk Hank!
many thanks WEISNER and Jacquesf !

[echoe]

research

nice tight and focused piece of research. well done.

[mufasa]

nice tight and focused piece of research. well done.

Thanks!

[mufasa]

yesterday was the 68th anniversary of the liberation of Rimini (21th september 1944) .... a ceremony was held as usual at the monument of Montecieco (the hills of Rimini in English war map "Ceriano Ridge") where the day before the Kampfgruppe Stollbrock (90th Pz.Gren.Div. of Gen. Ernst Gumther Baade) destroyed in an ambush 27 sherman of the English Regiment of Queens Bays (the 2nd Dragoon Guards)....




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San Marino Republic form Montecieco....



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and the stone in remembrance of the Quenn's Bays in Montecieco....




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