the Greeks (3rd Greek Mountain Brigade) with New Zealand tank (19 Armored Regiment) enter together in the city from the south (Riccione and the airport area)
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Greek soldiers the 21 september in Rimini.
there are poded photos, we have posted other earlier in this topic ...Comment
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the sherman of the 19 New Zaeland Armoured Regiment in Rimini the 21 september 1944...
(also we have their famous photo of sherman under the roman arch of Augustus back in the topic)Comment
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and two beautiful photos, again of 21 September, New Zealand and Greek soldiers togetherComment
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Instead the Canadians (48th Higlanders of Canada Reg.) , always on September 21, go directly to the north of the city, chasing the Germans across the river ...Comment
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.... and the photos of the Canadians in Rimini (near Marecchia river)....Comment
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and finally the small Greek War Cemetery in Riccione on the Flaminia roadComment
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and the great War Cemetery of Coriano where are buried the Canadians and New Zealanders soldiers who fell on the Rimini front...Comment
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Were they naughty partisans? Did they obey acceptable rules of war - did they wear official Italian uniform when captured? Are they heroes within the laws of warfare or were they bandit? We must ask these questions.Originally posted by mufasa View PostAnd 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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I ask these questions because I do not know this chapter in Italian history..
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Originally posted by wolfslair View Post
Thanks!
about your question:
Good or bad, are points of view, I am only interested in the chronicle of historical facts.
They have not been captured in Italian uniform (but it is a detail because all Italians captured by the Germans after September 8, 1943, in uniform or not, were not considered combat troops subject to the Geneva Convention).
I think no heroes and no bandits. They were armed, but their offense was precisely that of having only destroyed the harvester to prevent the Germans to take away the grain...Comment
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and for the occasion of the 70 years of the liberation of Rimini was organized an exhibition with documents, photos and memories of the passage of the frontComment
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the Exhibition was in the palace of the Podesta (the Mayor) of the town of Rimini) ... and so the opportunity to see another square of Rimini, the town square, Piazza Cavour ......Comment
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and a "then & now" of "Plazzo del Podestà " (built in 1334):
September 22, 1944 and today ....Comment
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and yesterday an important visit to our exhibition:
a group of about thirty Canadian veterans, with the Canadian Minister for Veterans Julian Fantino and the staff of the Canadian embassy in ItalyComment
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