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1 real historical location · Italy
Gregory Peck as Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, the Vatican priest who hid thousands of Allied POWs, Jews, and partisans under the noses of the Nazis in Rome. Based on the true story of the Vatican escape line that defied the Gestapo's most determined attempts to shut it down.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Italy.
Irish Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty operates a Vatican escape network from Rome — hiding thousands of Allied POWs and Jews from the Gestapo under the protection ...
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty (1898-1963) hid an estimated 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in Vatican City and Rome from 1943 to 1944. SS Colonel Herbert Kappler placed a white line around St. Peter's Square that O'Flahert...
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