4 real historical locations · Italy
An Italian film depicting the Marzabotto massacre of September-October 1944, in which SS troops killed over 770 Italian civilians in the Apennines in reprisal for partisan activity. One of the worst atrocities committed in Western Europe during the war.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Italy.
The 2009 Italian film depicts the Marzabotto massacre through the eyes of a young mute girl — the September 1944 SS reprisal that killed 770 civilians in the...
The Marzabotto massacre (29 September – 5 October 1944) was the largest Nazi massacre of civilians in Western Europe. SS Major Walter Reder ordered the killing of 770 civilians — including 216 children under 16 and 14...
View location →The mountain above Marzabotto where the SS committed the worst single atrocity against civilians in Western Europe — 770 people killed in four days.
Between September 29 and October 5, 1944, the SS 16th Panzergrenadier Division killed 770 civilians in the Monte Sole area — men, women, children and priests. The massacre was ordered as a reprisal for partisan activi...
View location →The village at the foot of Monte Sole — where the survivors gathered after the SS units swept through the surrounding hamlets.
Marzabotto itself was spared the worst of the massacre, but the surrounding hamlets of Cerpiano, Caprara, Casaglia and Pioppe di Salvaro were systematically destroyed. The town is now a center of remembrance for the M...
View location →The church where villagers sought sanctuary — and where the SS killed them all, including children who had crawled under the altar.
At Casaglia on September 29, 1944, villagers gathered in the church cemetery hoping for protection. SS troops shot the men and burned the church with the women, children and elderly inside. The priest was bayoneted. 1...
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