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30th November 1943: Impoverished Italians caught up in the war - a Canadian soldier's account of the atrocities commited by the Wehrmacht

Nov 30, 2023
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The Sangro River November 1943: A mule train carrying ammunition passes a bogged down Sherman tank en route in the forward positions in the Sangro area.

Given the murderous approach of the Germans to members of the Italian armed forces, their former allies, it was not perhaps surprising that they should have contempt for Italian civilians. The war was to…

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