The Sassoleone massacre (Italian: Eccidio di Sassoleone) was a mass killing carried out on 24 September 1944 in Sassoleone, a small hamlet of the municipality of Casalfiumanese, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, by Nazi-Fascist occupation forces during the Second World War. The massacre was conducted as a reprisal following the deaths of a driver and an officer of the German army in a clash with Italian partisans.
The Sassoleone massacre (Italian: Eccidio di Sassoleone) was a mass killing carried out on 24 September 1944 in Sassoleone, a small hamlet of the municipality of Casalfiumanese, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, by Nazi-Fascist occupation forces during the Second World War. The massacre was conducted as a reprisal following the deaths of a driver and an officer of the German army in a clash with Italian partisans.
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