Friday, May 16, 2014

Heroes: Gino Bartali

1 comment:

  1. Very gutsy guy.

    "Approximately 80% of Italian and refugee Jews living in Italy before World War Two survived, partly thanks to the efforts of Italian sympathisers."

    It also helped most of the country was liberated within a year of the occupation.

    The German Supreme Commander in Italy, Kesselring, fought a fairly clean war, but the SS was still active there.

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