[Necrosis]

Found a nice b&w video about the Adreatine Massacre, shows clearing of the mass grave the bodies were piled in. Too bad i couldn't download it. It's hosted on United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Collection.

http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/fv1273

By mistake,[12] a total of 335 Italian prisoners were taken, five in excess of the 330 called for. On 24 March, led by SS officers Erich Priebke and Karl Hass, they were transported to the Ardeatine caves in truckloads and then, in groups of five, put to death inside the caves. Because the killing squad mostly consisted of officers who had never killed before, Kappler had ordered several cases of cognac delivered to the caves to calm the officers' nerves. The officers were ordered to lead the doomed prisoners into the caves with their hands tied behind their backs and then have them kneel down so that the soldiers could place a bullet directly into the cerebellum, ensuring that no more than one bullet would be needed per prisoner. Many were forced to kneel down over the bodies of those who had been killed before them because the cave had become filled with dead bodies

[gatagato]

Grazie.

[gatagato]

Contribution to the thread by gatagato:

RG602033_03292007_0913.mp4

[kellyhound]

some unique historical footage

[ralucagymnast]

Tragic

[Necrosis]

The stench must have been real nasty. Those bodies look more moldy than my 2 month old fish stew in the fridge.

[vagabond]

Unreal- never even heard of this travesty. Good find

[LadyCPlum]

Sonofabitch. And of course, it only took almost 50 YEARS for Erich Priebke to be extradited from the comfortable life he was leading in Argentina after having escaped from Germany through one of the many rat lines set up.

[djrizzz]