4 real historical locations · 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 4 real historical locations 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...
View location →The Pope's summer residence hides over 3,000 Jewish and Allied refugees in its grounds and buildings. Monsignor O'Flaherty uses the papal estate as one node ...
Castel Gandolfo sheltered an estimated 3,000 refugees from September 1943 until liberation in June 1944. Approximately 40 children were born there during the occupation period.
View location →SS Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler operates from Via Tasso, hunting O'Flaherty's network and the escaped Allied prisoners it shelters. The cat-and-mouse b...
Via Tasso 155 held the SS prison in occupied Rome. Kappler was responsible for the Ardeatine Caves massacre (March 1944) and was tried for war crimes in 1948, sentenced to life imprisonment.
View location →Kappler orders the execution of 335 Italian civilians and prisoners here in reprisal for a partisan bomb that killed 33 SS soldiers — an atrocity that radica...
The Ardeatine massacre of 24 March 1944 killed 335 men including 75 Jews, in groups of five shot in the neck inside the caves. The bodies were sealed in with explosives. Kappler was convicted of the crime.
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