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British and American PoWs paraded through Rome

Feb 02, 2024
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Many propaganda images were taken by the Germans. US troops captured by the Germans at the height of the fighting in Italy are marched through the streets of Rome, February 1944. Note the Colosseum in the background.

On the 2nd February 1944 some 2000 US and British PoWs were paraded through Rome. It was partly a German attempt to re-assure the populatio…

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